Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. From a contrasting point of view.
- adv. In the opposite way or reverse order.
- adv. In a perverse manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
Wiktionary
- adv. in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction
- adv. on the other hand
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
- adv. In a contrary order; conversely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. contrary to expectations
- adv. with the order reversed
- adv. in a contrary disobedient manner
Etymologies
- contrary + -wise (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A BODY DOUBLE, contrariwise, is a person who takes his clothes off and has his rippling abs and dinner-plate pecs cinematographed, said images to be interespersed with head shots of the star.”
“This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate.”
“But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions.”
“Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning.”
“That said, though, I submit the hypothesis that our Constitutional form of government was framed under the assumption that at least in some important respects, all men are created equal, and that this form of government does not function well if informed by contrariwise ideas.”
Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If either or both had, contrariwise, refused to take part?”
“Or, contrariwise, if you want to blow up a building with nanothermite, then concoct a story about terrorists with nanothermite instead of hijackers.”
“And contrariwise, it may be that Senator Schumer is in no position to complain about his colleagues asking Kagan substantive questions.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
“Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.”
“The contrariwise facts and theories are mixed together in the process, and presented in full in reviews like the IPCC summary of climate science.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘contrariwise’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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I'm getting smarter
Words that end in -wise.
coastwise, clockwise, counterclockwise, otherwise, likewise, crabwise, leastwise, streetwise, penny-wise, lengthwise, contrariwise, thwartwise and 59 more...
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Dead (or dying) English Words
Inspired by the an old New York Times article and the Dictionary of Dying Danish Words list here on Wordie.
chorine, terpsichore, motorcar, motoring, centigrade, maven, tautology, pleonasm, contrariwise, spatchcock, mascaron, miasma and 29 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and ...
Words that, as I see it, have some fond connection to the Alice stories through their creation or particular use by Lewis Carroll. I mean to tie them all together with contexty comments!
alice, daisy-chain, white rabbit, waistcoat-pocket, rabbit-hole, marmalade, antipathy, antipode, curtsey, dinah, tea-time, rat-hole and 232 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
Best viewed in cloud format.sweggen, hooplehead, cocksucker, dope, yankton, camp, pussy, bonanza, laudanum, chinaman, hoecake, free gratis and 210 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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Directionality & Position
abaft, larboard, contrariwise, widdershins, bass-ackward, cant, askew, cattywampus, yaw-ways, slaunchways, thwartwise, askance and 32 more...
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simple & useful7
hamlet, municipality, shire, colloquially, decrescendo, coaxingly, disproportional, perturbed, obligatory, appurtenance, taciturn, coterminous and 58 more...
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Pride and Prejudice
Words taken from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
mien, pliancy, ductility, majoralty, denominate, vingt-un, twelvemonth, ragout, blowsy, loo, piquet, precipitance and 50 more...
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