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contradictory

adjective

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Expressing or involving claims that oppose one another and cannot both hold in the same sense.

The two notices gave contradictory instructions about whether advance registration was required.
Dictionary practice example.
In a practice debate about a fictional reading room, two statements were contradictory: one said every desk had a lamp, while the other said that one desk had no lamp at that same time.
From Testing an Argument.
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