contrary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.

   “contrary winds”

2. sıfat Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.

   “Galileo [Galilei]'s zeal for his opinions soon led him again to bring the question under the notice of the Pope, and the result was a declaration of the Inquisition that the doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred scripture.”

3. sıfat Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.

   “a contrary disposition; a contrary child”

4. zarf Contrarily

   “I never act contrary to my principles.”

5. isim The opposite.

   “No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave.”

6. isim One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.

   “If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.”

7. isim A type of loaded die.
8. fiil To oppose; to frustrate.

   “The Athenians having left the enemie in their owne land, for to pass into Sicilie, had very ill successe, and were much contraried by fortune[…].”

9. fiil To impugn.
10. fiil To contradict (someone or something).

    “thus wilfully sir Palomydes dyd bataille with yow & as for hym sir I was not gretely aferd but I dred fore laūcelot that knew yow not Madame said Palomydes ye maye saye what so ye wyll I maye not contrary yow but by my knyghthode I knewe not sir Tristram”

11. fiil To do the opposite of (someone or something).
12. fiil To act inconsistently or perversely; to act in opposition to.
13. fiil To argue; to debate; to uphold an opposite opinion.
14. fiil To be self-contradictory; to become reversed.