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PARADOXAL

Definition: PARADOXAL

PARADOXAL

Adjective

1. Paradoxical.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: PARADOXAL

Non-English Usage: "PARADOXAL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (paradox, paradoxical), Portuguese (paradoxical, paraffin), Romanian (paradoxical, paradoxically), Swedish (paradoxical).

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Commercial Usage: PARADOXAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Esprit, es-tu las? : l'irrationnel, un besoin social paradoxal (reference)

  • Hervé : un musicien paradoxal (1825-1892) (reference)

  • Kierkegaard, ou, L'instant paradoxal : recherches sur l'instant psychotique (reference)

  • La photographie plasticienne : un art paradoxal (reference)

  • Le chômage paradoxal (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PARADOXAL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

paradoxal

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PARADOXAL

Language Translations for "paradoxal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

aradoxalpay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PARADOXAL"

Words rhyming with "PARADOXAL" (pronounced 'Par"a*dox`al'): Anticatarrhal, Azimuthal, Heterodoxal, Lunitidal, Manuscriptal, Monolithal, Nonmetal, Orthodoxal, Prairial, Rose-rial, Salicylal, Semimetal, Sphenoethmoidal, Spur-royal, Sterrometal, sundial. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PARADOXAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-l-o-p-r-x"

-2 letters: paradox.

-3 letters: apodal.

-4 letters: parol, polar.

-5 letters: alar, apod, axal, dopa, dorp, drop, lard, load, lord, opal, orad, oral, para, pard, plod, prao, proa, prod, road.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-l-o-p-r-x"
 

+2 letters: paradoxical.

 

+4 letters: paradoxically.

 

+5 letters: paradoxicality.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PARADOXAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 41 52 41 44 4F 58 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000100 01001111 01011000 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#68 &#79 &#88 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0041 0052 0041 0044 004F 0058 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

503552353849583546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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