Usually means: Opposite manner, direction, or position.
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  1. contrariwise: Merriam-Webster
  2. contrariwise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contrariwise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contrariwise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contrariwise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contrariwise, contrariwise: Wordnik
  7. contrariwise: Wiktionary
  8. contrariwise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contrariwise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. contrariwise: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Contrariwise, contrariwise: Dictionary.com
  12. Contrariwise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. contrariwise: Rhymezone
  14. Contrariwise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. contrariwise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. contrariwise: FreeDictionary.org
  17. contrariwise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. contrariwise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. contrariwise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adverb:  (literary) in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction
▸ adverb:  (literary) on the other hand

Similar:
contrarily, vice versa, the other way around, perversely, on the contrary, to the contrary, contrawise, oppositely, contrariously, contrariantly, more...

Types:
antonym, synonym, homonym, homophone, metonym, hypernym, hyponym, meronym, more...

Adjectives:
old, other, last, lordship, evill, clean, good, faithful

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Similar:
contrarily, vice versa, the other way around, perversely, on the contrary, to the contrary, contrawise, oppositely, contrariously, contrariantly, more...

Types:
antonym, synonym, homonym, homophone, metonym, hypernym, hyponym, meronym, more...

Adjectives:
old, other, last, lordship, evill, clean, good, faithful



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