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paradoxically

adv
/ˌpaɹəˈdɒksɪkli/UK/ˌpɛɹəˈdɑksɪkli/US

Etymology

From paradoxical + -ly.

  1. derived from παράδοξος
  2. derived from paradoxum
  3. borrowed from paradoxe
  4. formed as paradoxical — “paradox + -ical”
  5. formed as paradoxically — “paradoxical + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a paradoxical manner

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

    • The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.
    • If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paradoxically. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA