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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
antinomy + -ic
Adjective
antinomic (comparative more antinomic, superlative most antinomic)
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory
Anagrams
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)
- antinomic
Declension