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We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word contrary: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "contrary" is defined. General (30 matching dictionaries) contrary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] contrary: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Vocabulary.com [home, info] contrary, the contrary: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Contrary, contrary: Wordnik [home, info] contrary, the contrary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Contrary: Wiktionary [home, info] contrary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] contrary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] contrary: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Contrary, contrary: Dictionary.com [home, info] contrary: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] contrary: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] contrary: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info] Contrary (comics), Contrary (social role), Contrary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Contrary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] contrary: Rhymezone [home, info] Contrary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Free Dictionary [home, info] contrary: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] contrary: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] contrary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] contrary: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] contrary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) CONTRARY: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info] contrary: The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) contrary: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) contrary: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) contrary: Idioms [home, info] Slang (2 matching dictionaries) Contrary: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook [home, info] contrary: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (contrary) ▸ noun:  two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false ▸ noun:  exact opposition ("Public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty") ▸ noun:  a relation of direct opposition ▸ adjective:  resistant to guidance or discipline ("Mary Mary quite contrary") ▸ adjective:  very opposed in nature or character or purpose ("Acts contrary to our code of ethics") ▸ adjective:  of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false ("`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms") ▸ adjective:  in an opposing direction ("A contrary wind") ▸ Word origin