Definition of Paradoxically

1. Adverb. In a paradoxical manner. "Paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"

Partainyms: Paradoxical

Definition of Paradoxically

1. Adverb. In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox. ¹

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Definition of Paradoxically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paradoxically

paradoxical movement of eyelids
paradoxical patellar reflex
paradoxical pulse
paradoxical pupil
paradoxical pupillary phenomenon
paradoxical pupillary reflex
paradoxical rage reaction
paradoxical rage reactions
paradoxical reflex
paradoxical respiration
paradoxical sleep
paradoxical triceps reflex
paradoxical undressing
paradoxicalities
paradoxicality
paradoxically
paradoxicalness
paradoxid
paradoxides
paradoxids
paradoxies
paradoxism
paradoxologies
paradoxology
paradoxure
paradoxures
paradoxy
paradrop
paradropped
paradropping

Literary usage of Paradoxically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"can meet with at present are three or four, which I appear to have overlooked; so that I may affirm, rathe'r paradoxically, that I have such of her letters ..."

2. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"... to have overlooked; so that I may affirm, rather paradoxically, that I have such of her letters as I had lost, and I have lost those which I have. ..."

3. Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture by Ed van Hinte (2006)
"And, paradoxically, it also represented the financial position of the occupant. Twentieth-century cultural ideals had declared war on the excessiveness of ..."

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