The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Definition of PARADOX for Kids. 1. : a statement that seems to say opposite things and yet is perhaps true. 2. : a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposite.
Definition of paradoxical. 1a : of the nature of a paradox the paradoxical theory that global warming will lead to the next Ice Ageb : inclined to paradoxes. 2 : not being the normal or usual kind a paradoxical pulse paradoxical drug reactions.