contrary

Examples

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• Besides, such utterances are far from positively affecting student emotions; on the contrary, they cause a negative reaction in them.

  Academic text (2010)

• Their existence proves the contrary, doesn't it?

  Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

• All evidence to the contrary.

  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

• Any belief to the contrary was in error.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Nothing is eternal and pure; on the contrary, everything is dangerous.

  Academic text (1993)

• Thus, absent documentation to the contrary, these individuals must be taken at their word.

  Blog text (27)

• Well, thank god I'm presenting evidence to the contrary.

  The Con Artist (2010)

• Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Museum advocates an essentialist reading of cultural traits and visual practice.

  Academic text (2006)

• Thus, despite the EPA's assertions to the contrary, CERCLA liability may exist in certain circumstances.

  Academic text (1999)

• The two theories are contrary; they cannot both be true at the same time.

Synonyms

I

incompatibility

vscontrary

2 6.7

A situation where two statements cannot both be true at the same time

allows both to be false rather than forcing one to be true

C

contrariety

vscontrary

9.9

A state in which two ideas or things are opposite and cannot both be true

has identical meaning but is expressed with a different noun form

M

mutual exclusiveness

vscontrary

8.2

A situation where two things cannot both happen or be true at the same time

focuses on truth relations between statements rather than occurrence timing

O

oppositeness

vscontrary

7.5

A state where two things are completely different, like day and night

is a logical relation where both cannot be true at the same time

Antonyms

C

consistent

305 3.3

Agreeing with something else and not contradicting it

Idioms

O

on the contrary

68 3.2

To say the opposite to correct a wrong idea

T

to the contrary

56 4.3

In a way that shows the opposite is true

Compounds

C

contrary to fact

• Specialized

1 7.7

Describing an imagined situation that is not true

Surface Forms

Etymology