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CONTRARY (8)

contrary - n 
exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" 
a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false 

Wordplays

Use contrary when two things are exactly opposite or entirely different. If something is contrary to something else, it is opposed to or against it.

A contrary child is one who opposes people in authority. As a noun, the contrary means the opposite, as in "We will not give up; on the contrary, we will fight with all our power." The adjective contrary derives from Latin contrarius ("opposite, opposed") from contra ("against").

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