Indecipherable vs Paradoxical - What's the difference?
indecipherable | paradoxical | Related terms |
Not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend.
Having self-contradictory properties.
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Indecipherable is a related term of paradoxical.
As adjectives the difference between indecipherable and paradoxical
is that indecipherable is not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend while paradoxical is having self-contradictory properties.indecipherable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's handwriting was indecipherable .
Synonyms
* undecipherableAntonyms
* decipherableExternal 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.
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- 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.