Results for contrary
Definitions of contrary:
part of speech: adjective
Opposite: inconsistent: contradictory.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: adjective
Opposed; contradictory; opposite in direction; perverse; wayward.
part of speech: noun
Contrariness, contrariety.
part of speech: noun
CONTRARINESS.
part of speech: noun
A thing of opposite qualities.
part of speech: adverb
Contrarily.
part of speech: noun
A thing of qualities opposite to those of some other thing; the opposite of some assertion.
part of speech: adjective
Adverse; opposite; contradictory; repugnant; in an opposite direction.
Usage examples for contrary:
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They will charge you with want of respect to your high station, and that is not right, for you have on the contrary too much; you are so proud, Albrecht, that everything is all the same to you.
"Royal Highness", Thomas Mann -
No, no, old man, just the contrary believe me!
"Out of the Primitive", Robert Ames Bennet -
On the contrary Ambassador.
"The Moghul", Thomas Hoover -
It's contrary to all natural law."
"Principles of Teaching", Adam S. Bennion