Crossword-Solution: CONTRARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrary | a. | Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. |
| Contrary | a. | Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent. |
| Contrary | a. | Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child. |
| Contrary | a. | Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. |
| Contrary | n. | A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. |
| Contrary | n. | An opponent; an enemy. |
| Contrary | n. | the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. |
| Contrary | n. | See Contraries. |
We have 126 clues for the answer “CONTRARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Mary, Mary quite ___" | 1 answer |
| "___ to popular belief . . ." | 1 answer |
| ADVERSATIVE | 1 answer |
| Adjective for Mary Mary | 1 answer |
| Describing Mary | 1 answer |
| Like a certain Mary | 1 answer |
| OPPOSED in nature | 1 answer |
| OPPOSED in tendency to | 1 answer |
| Antonym | 2 answers |
| BUT yet | 2 answers |
| OPPOSITE in position | 2 answers |
| contrasting | 3 answers |
| contrariness | 3 answers |
| In opposition to | 5 answers |
| in-opposition-to | 5 answers |
| conversely | 7 answers |
| antipode | 8 answers |
| diametric | 9 answers |
| Diametrically opposed | 10 answers |
| antipodal | 11 answers |
| antithetical | 12 answers |
| discrepant | 12 answers |
| BACKSTABBING | 14 answers |
| Unfavorable | 15 answers |
| ornery | 20 answers |
| mutant | 22 answers |
| balky | 23 answers |
| reforming | 26 answers |
| Dissimilar | 27 answers |
| Contra. | 29 answers |
| disparate | 31 answers |
| *Nevertheless | 32 answers |
| Diverse | 34 answers |
| untoward | 35 answers |
| eruptible | 42 answers |
| anarchistic | 43 answers |
| Bull-headed | 44 answers |
| insurrectionary | 44 answers |
| duelling | 44 answers |
| Fretful | 45 answers |
| resisting | 45 answers |
| anarchical | 45 answers |
| Yet | 46 answers |
| Volcanic | 48 answers |
| Opposite | 48 answers |
| Incompatible | 49 answers |
| treasonous | 52 answers |
| froward | 53 answers |
| ungovernable | 54 answers |
| antithetic | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRARY (5)
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection.
You must not think from this that the mermaids were on friendly terms with them: on the contrary, it was among Wendy’s lasting regrets that all the time she was on the island she never had a civil word from one of them.
Fall’n Cherube, to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm.
Quotes with CONTRARY (3)
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1985–2025).