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contrary
Synonyms and Antonyms of contrary
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being as different as possible
2
engaging in or marked by childish misbehavior
defiant, disrespectful, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impolite, improper, impudent, indecorous, insolent, rude, uncouth, unmannerly
disobedient, headstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressing, unruly, untoward, willful (or wilful)
balky, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, wayward, wild
arch, elfish, impish, knavish, monkeying, monkeyish, ornery, pixieish, prankish, rascally, roguish, waggish
dissolute, perverse, wrongheaded
insurgent, mutinous, rebellious
disobliging, inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, unkind, unkindly
babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish, puerile
acquiescent, compliant, complying, dutiful, obedient, submissive
clean, correct, decent, decorous, moral, proper, respectable
considerate, courteous, kindly, mannerly, polite, thoughtful
angelic (or angelical), cherubic, divine, heavenly
amenable, docile, governable, tractable
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given to resisting authority or another's control
adamant, adamantine, dogged, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, implacable, inflexible, mulish, negativistic, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, peevish, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding
fractious, restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
perverse, resistant, wrongheaded
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, ornery, rude, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly
Synonym Discussion of contrary
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- a contrary child
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- a perverse, intractable critic
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- tired soldiers growing restive
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- a balky witness
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- a school for wayward youths
synonyms see in addition opposite
contrary
Synonyms and Antonyms of contrary
something that is as different as possible from something else
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