meaning of contrary
1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
2. An opponent; an enemy.
3. the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n. , 1.
4. See Contraries.
5. Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
6. Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.
7. Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.
8. Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.
9. two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
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