1) Adjective for Mary Mary 2) Describing Mary 3) Diametrically opposed 4) Different 5) Exact opposition 6) French word used in English 7) In an opposing direction 8) Opposite to 9) Perverse
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1) Adverse 2) Antonymous 3) Averse 4) Balky 5) Conflicting 6) Crabbed 7) Different 8) Disobedient 9) Naughty 10) Opposed 11) Opposite 12) Oppugnant 13) Perverse 14) Quarrelsome 15) Unfavorable 16) Unfavourable 17) Unhelpful 18) Wayward
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- a relation of direct opposition
- exact opposition
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[logic] Contrary is the relationship between two propositions when they cannot both be true (although both may be false). Thus, we can make an immediate inference that if one is true, the other must be false. The law holds for the A and E propositions of the Aristotelian square of opposition. For example, the A proposition `every man is hon...
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[social role] A Contrary was a member of a Native North American tribal group who adopted behavior that was deliberately the opposite of other tribal members. The Contraries were found among the historical Amerindian tribes of the Great Plains. They were a small number of individuals loosely organized into a cult that was devoted to the pra...
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• (n.) See Contraries. • (a.) Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent. • (n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. • (a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. • (a....
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(from the article `logic, history of`) ...can be opposed to one another. He observed that when two such propositions are related as forms A and E, they cannot be true together but can be ...
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Con'tra·ry noun ;
plural Contraries 1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. « No
contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.
Shak. »
2. An opponent; an enemy. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer. 3. the opposite; ...
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Con'tra·ry transitive verb [ French
contrarier . See
Contrary ,
adjective ] To contradict or oppose; to thwart. [ Obsolete] « I was advised not to
contrary the king.
Bp. Latimer. »
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Con'tra·ry adjective [ Middle English contrarie , contraire , French contraire , from Latin contrarius , from contra . See Contra- .] 1. Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. « And if ye walk
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[
adj] - of words so related that both cannot be true but both may be false 2. [adj] - very opposed in nature or character or purpose 3. [adj] - resistant to guidance or discipline 4. [n] - exact opposition 5. [n] - two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
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obstinate adjective resistant to guidance or discipline; `Mary Mary quite contrary`; `an obstinate child with a violent temper`; `a perverse mood`; `wayward behavior`
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exact opposition
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very opposed in nature or character or purpose
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[Literary terms] exact opposition
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exact opposition
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