Betekenis van:
paradoxical

paradoxical
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • tegenstrijdig lijkend
  • seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
"it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Many paradoxes are paradoxical only because they sound strange.
  2. In addition, it would be paradoxical to require La Poste to pay unemployment contributions when it does not enjoy the flexibility of personnel management normally available in return for such contributions.
  3. This leads e.g. to the paradoxical result in Germany's calculation for the expansion scenario with DHL that the discounted terminal value is five times as high as the airport's discounted cash-flow for 2005 to 2042 [54].
  4. The group thus took shape in a quite paradoxical and unbalanced manner, with the parent company France Télécom SA carrying all the debt while the subsidiaries concentrated on growth …’.