Definitions from Wiktionary (subcontrary)
▸ adjective: Contrary in an inferior degree.
▸ adjective: (geometry) Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
▸ adjective: (logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
▸ noun: (logic) Either of a pair of propositions at least one of which must be true
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▸ adjective: Contrary in an inferior degree.
▸ adjective: (geometry) Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
▸ adjective: (logic) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
▸ noun: (logic) Either of a pair of propositions at least one of which must be true
Similar:
contrary,
less so,
underly,
inverted,
afortiori,
dissident,
inverse,
a fortiori,
backward,
poles apart,
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