Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paradoxical \Par`a*dox"ic*al\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*d[o^]ks"[i^]*kal), a.
Of the nature of a paradox.
Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions.
--Southey. [1913 Webster] -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox.
WordNet
adv. in a paradoxical manner; "paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"
Usage examples of "paradoxically".
Paradoxically, he began to move in the other direction as he matured and was one of the pioneers in fictional explanation of the supernatural and witchcraft in scientific terms.
At such a time, reflect on how your bliss is made paradoxically possible by precisely those features of your physiology that distinguished your remote ancestors as they languished in harems, or as they rotated among promiscuously shared sex partners.
He had already treated her to a reaming that paradoxically had left her both physically drained and emotionally elated.
Though they would pass vanishingly close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole, there was nothing to fear from tides: Chandra was, paradoxically, too big for that, and in fact they could fall all the way down through the event horizon without feeling a thing.
Paradoxically almost, the linguistic facility which makes Nabokov such an excellent game-player also encourages these readers, through its defamiliarizing effects, to think anew about artistry and reality, subjectivity and alterity, authority and autonomy.
The nose of the vessel then enters this area quickly, and at the same time, the top, sides and bottom of Ha-Ta gradually increase the size of the soil particles back to normal, so that Ha-Ta is pushed forward delicately and vigilantly, yet paradoxically with great power and thrust, depending on the speed.
The Eco-theorists get so enraptured in their Manichaean good-versus-bad spirit that they paradoxically contribute to just those dualistic and destructive forces that at their best they, and all thoughtful men and women, do indeed wish to see superseded.
Paradoxically, this ineffable state is at once contentless and all-containing, of nonbeing yet more than being, no ego and yet an extension of self that embraces the whole cosmos.
It is therefore paradoxically fortunate for their survival that so many of the species who achieve relatively high standards of civilization lose through nonuse the very physical characteristics upon which, in earlier stages, their survival depended and without which civilization would not have been achievable.
Maybe it was just the sheer magnificence of her, paradoxically, that made it seem even junkier than it was.
It seemed as though they had ridden through eternity, through a rainstorm that, paradoxically, had relieved the worst of the chaos backflash agony.
Restlessly prowling, too tired, paradoxically, by this point I rest, he returned to the main room, examining the small, intriJ cately wrought bronze fire pot on a stand in the corner: cautio sniffing revealed no hidden drugs, only a pleasant incense.
It was gray cold and dead from horizon to horizon under the gray dead clouds-not the soft comfortable gray of twilit illusions, of unstark colors blurring like consolation or complacency into each other, but rather the gray of disconsolation and dismay, paradoxically dull and raw, numb and poignant, a gray like the ashen remains of color and sap and blood and bone.
He seemed to hear every instrument from fife to bass viol simultaneously, and yet, paradoxically, each rang in his ear in solitary clearness.
But, paradoxically, the electronic warfare, because of the increase in emissive power, led to a stalemate here, too: lasers powerful enough to pierce the defenses yielded not intelligence but destruction.