Crossword-Solution: CONTRARIES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contraries | n. | Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. |
| Contraries | pl. | of Contrary |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTRARIES | anagram | RARESTCOIN |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CONTRARIES”
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| Exact opposites. | 3 answers |
| Opposites | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRARIES (5)
With what delight could I have walkt thee round If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange Of Hill and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines, Now Land, now Sea, & Shores with Forrest crownd, Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these Find place or refuge; and the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me, as from the hateful siege Of contraries; all good to me becomes Bane, and in Heav’n much worse would be my state.
Brand and Charlotte,” said Eugenia, “but it doesn’t look like it.” “There,” Acton answered, “you must judge just now by contraries.
Saradine was a French freemason and a fierce atheist, and a priest moved him by the law of contraries.
Dreams, as a general rule, went by contraries; but a dream three times repeated was a certain portent of the thing defined.
Meg observed it, but did not trouble herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
Quotes with CONTRARIES (3)
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their o…