矛盾・矛楯|むじゅんmujun[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbcontradiction; inconsistencyそれは矛盾だらけだ。↗It's a bundle of contradictions.
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 矛盾する(むじゅんする) |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 矛盾します(むじゅんします) |
| Negative (nai) | 矛盾しない(むじゅんしない) |
| polite (masen) | 矛盾しません(むじゅんしません) |
| classical zu / nu | 矛盾せず・矛盾せぬ(むじゅんせず・むじゅんせぬ) |
| Past (ta) | 矛盾した(むじゅんした) |
| polite (mashita) | 矛盾しました(むじゅんしました) |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 矛盾しなかった(むじゅんしなかった) |
| polite (masen deshita) | 矛盾しませんでした(むじゅんしませんでした) |
| Te form | 矛盾して(むじゅんして) |
| Potential | 矛盾できる(むじゅんできる) |
| Passive | 矛盾される(むじゅんされる) |
| Causative | 矛盾させる(むじゅんさせる) |
| Causative passive | 矛盾させられる(むじゅんさせられる) |
| Conditional (ba) | 矛盾すれば(むじゅんすれば) |
| tara | 矛盾したら(むじゅんしたら) |
| Volitional | 矛盾しよう(むじゅんしよう) |
| polite (mashou) | 矛盾しましょう(むじゅんしましょう) |
| Imperative | 矛盾しろ(むじゅんしろ) |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
- Synonym撞着どうちゃくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Refers to earlier and later statements clashing; mostly seen in the set phrase 「自家撞着」.
- Synonym背馳はいちWrittenWritten/formal prose. Means running counter to or defying something; rarely used.
- Synonym矛盾撞着むじゅんどうちゃくWrittenWritten/formal prose. A four-character idiom for self-contradiction, with statements that do not hang together.
- Synonym不一致ふいっちNeutralNeutral and objective. Simply means not matching or agreeing, as in 「意見の不一致」, with no implication of logical contradiction.
- Synonym齟齬そごWrittenWritten/formal prose. Means not fitting together, a discrepancy, as in 「齟齬が生じる」; often used in business.
- Synonym相反そうはんNeutralNeutral. Means mutual opposition, as in 「利害が相反する」; mostly used as a verb.
- RelatedとんちんかんCasualColloquial. Describes answers that miss the point or fail to match the question, as in 「とんちんかんな答え」.
Use 「矛盾」 when statements or logic clash, as in 「矛盾した話」. For discrepancies use 「食い違い」 or 「齟齬」; for mere difference 「不一致」; for answers that miss the point 「とんちんかん」.
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