Controversial vs Paradoxical - What's the difference?
controversial | paradoxical |
Arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions.
* (rfdate) Macaulay:
Having self-contradictory properties.
* 1776 , (Adam Smith), , book II, ch 2
* 1898 , , , Book 2, ch 4
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As adjectives the difference between controversial and paradoxical
is that controversial is arousing controversy—a debate or discussion of opposing opinions while paradoxical is having self-contradictory properties.controversial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Whole libraries of controversial books.
Usage notes
* Nouns often used with "controversial": topic, subject, work, author, method, etc.Synonyms
* contentious * contestedAntonyms
* uncontroversial * noncontroversial * incontrovertibleDerived terms
* controversialnessSee also
* disputatious * polemical * disputable * controvertible * debatableExternal links
* *paradoxical
English
Adjective
(-)- It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical . When properly explained and understood, it is almost self-evident.
- It sounds paradoxical , but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.
citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
- It was tightly fitted with a cap of the same substance, and bore engraved figurings of an evidently decorative and possibly symbolic nature - conventional designs which seemed to follow a peculiarly alien, paradoxical , and doubtfully describable system of geometry.