<span class="searchmatch">contrarying</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">contrarily</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">contrarily</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">contrarily</span>) In a <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> manner; in opposite ways or directions. Synonyms:...
to the <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> Alternative form of on the <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span>. I heard nothing to the <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span>....
(third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">contraries</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">contrarying</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">contraried</span>) (obsolete) To oppose; to frustrate...
From <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> + -ness. <span class="searchmatch">contrariness</span> (countable and uncountable, plural contrarinesses) The state of being <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> constrainers...
<span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> to despite; in opposition to (an assumption, etc.); differently from <span class="searchmatch">Contrary</span> to what you might think, Antarctica is technically a desert. contra...
also: <span class="searchmatch">contraries</span>, <span class="searchmatch">contraríes</span>, and <span class="searchmatch">contràries</span> <span class="searchmatch">contrariés</span> masculine plural of contrarié contraires, contrerais, racornîtes, tracerions <span class="searchmatch">contrariés</span> second-person...
/kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/ <span class="searchmatch">contrarier</span> to thwart to upset to stand in the way of Conjugation of <span class="searchmatch">contrarier</span> (see also Appendix:French verbs) “<span class="searchmatch">contrarier</span>”, in Trésor de...
also: <span class="searchmatch">contrariés</span>, <span class="searchmatch">contraríes</span>, and <span class="searchmatch">contràries</span> <span class="searchmatch">contraries</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">contrary</span> 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara[1]: Things might go by <span class="searchmatch">contraries</span>, she...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">contraries</span>, <span class="searchmatch">contrariés</span>, and <span class="searchmatch">contràries</span> <span class="searchmatch">contraríes</span> second-person singular present subjunctive of contrariar...