antinomic

English

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Etymology

antinomy + -ic

Adjective

antinomic (comparative more antinomic, superlative most antinomic)

  1. Exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.
    • 2007 November 3, Jim Dwyer, “A Prosecution Goes Bad, and a Judge Lets Loose”, in New York Times:
      Their reasoning, the judge wrote, was that it would be antinomic for the F.B.I., charged with fighting crime, to employ as an informer a murderer as vicious and prolific as Greg Scarpa.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French antinomique. By surface analysis, antinomie + -ic.

Adjective

antinomic m or n (feminine singular antinomică, masculine plural antinomici, feminine and neuter plural antinomice)

  1. antinomic

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