paradoxically

[par-uh-dok-sik-lee]

adverb

1. in a self-contradictory or seemingly self-contradictory way.

   Paradoxically, the more we know, the more we identify an increasing number of questions to which we as yet have no answers.

Other Word Forms

• nonparadoxically adverb
• ultraparadoxically adverb
• unparadoxically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of paradoxically¹

paradoxical ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

And paradoxically, AI could help do just that — if asked the right questions and rewarded for the right actions.

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These two parts of yourself will always be in dialogue with one another and they’re what, somewhat paradoxically, give you the depth that defines you.

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This led me to be very wary of people airily predicting that democracy was finished, and made me alive to the way that, paradoxically, such nightmares can actually damage democracy.

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The game continues in “Boating Party,” which puts us inside a rowboat right up close to a top-hatted rower whose exertion will paradoxically pull the boat away from where we stand.

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But while the story could conceivably be told with live actors in real settings, it would likely be so exaggerated, so satirical, that the human element, paradoxically, might get lost.

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