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.
Paradoxical is an adjective that describes a paradox, something with two meanings that donât make sense together. Its Greek roots translate to âcontrary opinion,â and when two different opinions collide in one statement or action, thatâs paradoxical. In Shakespeareâs play Hamlet, Hamletâs mother marries the man who killed Hamletâs father, but she doesnât know it.