contrary in Tamil தமிழ்
contrary in English
- contrary⇄adj. 1. opposed; opposite; completely different.
Ex. My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.
2. opposite in direction or position.
(SYN) counter.
3. being the opposite one of two.
Ex. The players on the contra - contrary⇄adv. contrarily.
- contrary⇄adv. in opposition; contrarily.
- contrary⇄contrary, adjective, noun, pl.-ries,adverb.
- contrary⇄expr. by contraries, contrary to expectation.
Ex. In the Commonwealth I would (by contraries) execute all things (Shakespeare). - contrary⇄expr. on the contrary, exactly opposite to what has been said.
Ex. He is not stingy; on the contrary, no one could be more generous. Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural (Jane Austen). - contrary⇄expr. to the contrary, with the opposite effect.
Ex. The next debater, in rebuttal, spoke to the contrary. - contrary⇄noun contrariness.
- contrary⇄noun 1. the opposite.
Ex. After promising to stay and clean up, he did the contrary and walked out.
2. (Logic.)
a. a proposition so related to a second that both may be false, but both cannot be true. ?All cows are black is the contra