contradictory

contradictoire

Qui fournit des informations en désaccord avec d’autres, si bien qu’elles ne peuvent pas toutes être exactes.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : conflicting, inconsistent

Contraires : consistent

Expressions courantes : contradictory evidence, contradictory statements, contradictory accounts

contradictoire, incohérent

Qui contient des idées ou des éléments ne pouvant pas tous être vrais ou s’accorder.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : self-contradictory, inconsistent

Contraires : consistent

Expressions courantes : internally contradictory, contradictory argument, contradictory statement

opposé, contraire

Complètement opposé à autre chose par ses objectifs, son caractère ou ses convictions.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : contradictory to something (His actions were contradictory to his stated principles.)

Synonymes : opposed, opposing, contrary

Contraires : compatible

Expressions courantes : contradictory aims, contradictory interests, contradictory to something

mutuellement exclusif, incompatible

Qui ne peut pas être vrai ou possible en même temps qu’autre chose.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : mutually exclusive, incompatible

Contraires : compatible

Expressions courantes : contradictory propositions, mutually contradictory, contradictory conditions

proposition contradictoire, négation

Énoncé nécessairement faux si un autre est vrai, et vrai si l’autre est faux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the contradictory of something (The contradictory of this proposition is its negation.)

Synonymes : negation

Expressions courantes : the contradictory, contradictory of something, a logical contradictory