noun
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The opposite.
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One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, , though they may both be false.
verb
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To oppose; to frustrate.
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To impugn.
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To contradict (someone or something).
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To do the opposite of (someone or something).
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To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
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To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
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To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.
adjective
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Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
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contrary winds
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Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
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What may be "politically correct" could be contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
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Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
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a contrary disposition; a contrary child
adverb
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Contrarily
Examples of contrary in a Sentence
There was a contrary opinion of course!
On the contrary, I didn't even hear it.
Contrary to your opinion, I do respect your judgment.
Somehow it seemed contrary to his character - any of them.
On the contrary, I was flattered.
They reviewed contrary viewpoints.
Julie on the contrary accepted his attentions readily, though in a manner peculiar to herself.
As much evidence as there was to the contrary, she couldn't believe Yancey was involved in drugs.
Contrary to the others, my employment wasn't a career and frankly, I didn't enjoy what I was doing.
There is a sense that this runs somewhat contrary to the spirit of the agreement.
She wasn't irresponsible, a blabbermouth or a liar – contrary to what both of them seemed to think.
On the contrary, I am very glad to make your acquaintance, said Pierre.
On the contrary, now is the best of all.
Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.
Contrary to Bilibin's forecast the news he had brought was joyfully received.
Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes--love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt.
Pierre maintained the contrary, and as his mental faculties were greater and more resourceful, Nicholas felt himself cornered.
On the contrary, he became more and more elated.
Contrary winds prevented him from succeeding in his fifteen attempts to cross the seas to Ireland.
On the contrary, just because he happened to be there he thought it one of the least significant parts of the field.
So why this nagging feeling to the contrary, like he was missing something?
On the contrary, even Christian theology makes at least the effort to show that the thought of God regulates the whole system of belief.
On the contrary it tormented her more than anything else of late, and particularly so on this bright, hot summer day in town.
It tends on the contrary to be low on days of fog or rain.
On the contrary, the lower members of each tend to converge towards the lower members of all the others.
Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well.
In any event, nearly everything that Lord Wright said is directly contrary to the approach of the judges.
On the contrary, most of its branches can be carried on in the cottages of the peasantry.
On the contrary, I will do what I can.
The Development Control and Environmental Protection Committee refused the application contrary to officer advice.
But the roll of the drums did not make the looting soldiers run in the direction of the drum as formerly, but made them, on the contrary, run farther away.
On the contrary the greater the heat the more solidified the remaining snow becomes.
He procured, through his cousin Cecil, the dignity of knighthood, which, contrary to his inclination, he received along with about 300 others, on the 23rd of July 1603.
What evidence did they have to the contrary?
On the 3rd of May the Czech Catholics elected Matthias king of Bohemia, but this was contrary to the wishes of both pope and emperor, who preferred to partition Bohemia.
The spirit of the nation was in them and they fought to kill, not for the honour of their arms. The emperor was not discouraged, but on the contrary renewed his efforts to bring up every available man.
On the contrary, he possesses both in a marked degree, and his deftness of finger is not less remarkable than the suppleness and activity of his body.
He not merely did nothing of the kind, but on the contrary he used his power to select the most foolish and ruinous of all the courses open to him.
In Emilia the day laborers, known as disobbligati, earn, on the contrary, low wages, out of which they have to provide for shelter and to lay by something against unemployment.
In, taking this step the Modenese and Romagnols had the encouragement of Bonaparte, despite the orders which the French directory sent to him in a contrary sense.
On the contrary, many of them took pleasure in composing versicles to which Chinese words were admitted and which showed something of the parallelism peculiar to Chinese poetry, since the first ideograph of the last line was required to be identical with the final ideograph.
Japan, on the contrary, owes her ceramic distinction in the main to her faience.
The contrary has been repeatedly affirmed by foreign critics, but no one really familiar with modern productions can entertain such a view.
Drawn between various influences, that of Marguerite d'Angouleme, the du Bellays, and the duchesse d'Etampes, who was in favour of the Reformation or at least of toleration, and the contrary influence of the uncompromising Catholics, Duprat, and then Montmorency and de Tournon, he gave pledges successively to both parties.
Both these embassies were undertaken contrary to the wishes of King Casimir IV., who was altogether opposed to Olesnicki's ecclesiastical policy.
But here too the genius of Mrs Veal's creator must, in the absence of all evidence to the contrary, be allowed sufficient for the task.
Contrary to all the rules of war then in vogue, he fought a piecemeal and unpremeditated battle, with.
A curious feature among them is the frequent reduction of the wings in the males of certain species, contrary to the usual condition among the Hexapoda, where if the sexes differ in the development of their wings it is the female which has them reduced.
It might have been expected that they would then cease to use their own language and become Germanized; but, on the contrary, the movement of population is spreading their language and they claim that special schools should be provided for them, and that men of their own nationality should be appointed to government offices to deal with their business.
The Jerusalem ministry on the contrary is never welcomed with enthusiasm.