contradictory

contradictorio

Que da información incompatible con otra, de modo que ambas no pueden ser correctas.

En inglés sencillo: Giving information that disagrees with something else, so both cannot be right.

• The witnesses gave contradictory accounts.
• We received contradictory advice from two doctors.
• These reports contain contradictory information about the accident.

Sinónimos: conflicting, inconsistent

Antónimos: consistent

Expresiones frecuentes: contradictory evidence, contradictory statements, contradictory accounts

contradictorio, incoherente

Que contiene ideas o partes que no pueden ser todas ciertas o encajar entre sí.

En inglés sencillo: Containing ideas or parts that cannot all be true or fit together.

• His explanation was internally contradictory.
• A square circle is a contradictory idea.
• The report makes a contradictory claim about its own results.

Sinónimos: self-contradictory, inconsistent

Antónimos: consistent

Expresiones frecuentes: internally contradictory, contradictory argument, contradictory statement

opuesto, contrario

Completamente opuesto a algo en sus objetivos, características o creencias.

En inglés sencillo: Completely opposed to something else in aim, character, or belief.

• The two groups had contradictory aims.
• Her actions were contradictory to her beliefs.
• The committee struggled to balance contradictory interests.

Cómo se usa: contradictory to something (His actions were contradictory to his stated principles.)

Sinónimos: opposed, opposing, contrary

Antónimos: compatible

Expresiones frecuentes: contradictory aims, contradictory interests, contradictory to something

mutuamente excluyente, incompatible

Que no puede ser cierto o posible al mismo tiempo que otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: Unable to be true or possible at the same time.

• The two conditions are contradictory.
• Mutually contradictory statements cannot both be true.
• The rules impose contradictory requirements on applicants.

Sinónimos: mutually exclusive, incompatible

Antónimos: compatible

Expresiones frecuentes: contradictory propositions, mutually contradictory, contradictory conditions

proposición contradictoria, negación

Afirmación que es falsa si otra es verdadera, y verdadera si la otra es falsa.

En inglés sencillo: A statement that must be false if another is true, and true if the other is false.

• Every proposition has a contradictory.
• If the statement is true, its contradictory is false.
• The students identified the contradictories of three propositions.

Cómo se usa: the contradictory of something (The contradictory of this proposition is its negation.)

Sinónimos: negation

Expresiones frecuentes: the contradictory, contradictory of something, a logical contradictory