kontradiktorisch
German, adjective/kɔntʁadɪkˈtoːʁɪʃ/
kontradiktorisch is spelled K-O-N-T-R-A-D-I-K-T-O-R-I-S-C-H (16 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written German, the 495,385th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kontradiktorisch is a German adjective meaning “contradictory” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich widersprechend, sich gegenseitig aufhebend (von zwei Aussagen)”.
What does kontradiktorisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
contradictory
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich widersprechend, sich gegenseitig aufhebend (von zwei Aussagen) 2. Eigenschaft eines bestimmten Typs von Bedeutungsbeziehung, der Antonymie, zwischen Wörtern
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of kontradiktorisch
- kontradiktorischer masculine nominative singular
- am kontradiktorischsten superlative
- kontradiktorische feminine nominative singular
- kontradiktorisches neuter nominative singular
- kontradiktorischen genitive masculine singular
- kontradiktorischem dative masculine singular
- der kontradiktorische definite includes-article masculine
- die kontradiktorische definite feminine includes-article
- das kontradiktorische definite includes-article neuter
- die kontradiktorischen definite includes-article nominative
- des kontradiktorischen definite genitive includes-article
- der kontradiktorischen definite feminine genitive
- dem kontradiktorischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kontradiktorisch?
- /kɔntʁadɪkˈtoːʁɪʃ/
- [kɔntʁadɪkˈtoːʁɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kontradiktorisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kontradiktorisch in German?
kontradiktorisch appears about once in every 65 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).