�You have to spend money to make money.” That’s a paradoxical statement used by people in business, and it seems to say two opposite things that contradict each other, but if you think about it, it’s actually kind of true.
Of the nature of a paradox.
Adjective S.
seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"
a.
Of the nature of a paradox.
a.
Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions
contrary to received opinions.
Paradoxical
Paradoxer, n., Paradoxist
Of the nature of a paradox.
Usage Examples
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Power is paradoxical.
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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