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contrary
Synonyms and Antonyms of contrary
- the other jurors seemed sure the defendant was guilty, but I came to the contrary conclusion
- a contrary child who wouldn't behave
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
- the contrary soldier is facing a court-martial for insubordination
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
- the admonition that we should not return hate with hate, but rather with its contrary—love
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