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Definition: CONTRARIES |
CONTRARIESNoun1. Propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other. Plural1. Of Contrary |
Date "CONTRARIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contrariety | Phrase: " all concord's born of contraries ". Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CONTRARIES |
| English words defined with "CONTRARIES": contrariety, contrary ♦ Dissimile ♦ Enantiosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CONTRARIES": Downy Cove. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Ben Jonson | All concord's born of contraries. |
William Blake | Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | There are no contraries or admixtures of any kind to temper or soften in the least the pains of hell. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CONTRARIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTRARIES" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CONTRARIES": by contraries. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "CONTRARIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 相反 (Antithetic, Antithetical, Contrary, inverse, opposite, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Gegenteile (opposites). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ανάποδα (about, back to front, backwards, by contraries, topsy turvy, upside down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 반대 (Contrary, inverse, Objecting, Objection, opposing, opposite, Opposition). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontrariescay invers (about, backward, backwards, by contraries, contrarily, contrariwise, converse, conversely, counter, inverse, inversely, opposed, opposite, reciprocally, reverse, topsy turvy, vice versa). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CONTRARIES": subcontraries. (additional references) | |
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"CONTRARIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Centruroides, contrare, contrarian, contrarians, contrarien, contrario, contrarium, Contronics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anoretics, carrotins, creations, oratrices, reactions, serration, tricornes. | |
-2 letters: aconites, ancestor, anoretic, anterior, antrorse, canister, canoeist, carotins, carrions, carrotin, ceratins, cisterna, cointers, corniest, creatins, creation, creators, enactors, erratics, introrse, notaries, noticers, reaction, reactors, resorcin, restrain, retrains, rotaries, scantier, scenario, senorita, sonicate, strainer, tacrines, terrains, trainers, tricorne, tricorns. | |
-3 letters: acetins, acinose, aconite, actions, anestri, antsier. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: recreations, refractions, retractions. | |
+2 letters: acrocentrics, carburetions, cerebrations, chiropterans, contrariness, contrariwise, correlations, counterraids, doctrinaires, incinerators, incorporates, mercurations, procreations, rarefactions, recordations, retroactions, rhetoricians, secretionary. | |
+3 letters: anticorrosive, conservatoire, contrarieties, controversial, copartnership, craniometries, discretionary, intercompares, orchestrating, orchestration, overreactions, practitioners, procrastinate, reactionaries, recreationist, recuperations, redecorations, subcontraries, superromantic, terpsichorean, trichopterans, tubocurarines. | |
+4 letters: acrylonitriles, anticorrosives, conservatoires, conservatorial, conservatories, containerports, contemporaries, contrarinesses, copartnerships, cotransferring, counterrallies, decerebrations, gerontocracies, incarcerations, insurrectional, macronutrients, mercerizations, miscorrelation, orchestrations, prevarications, procrastinated, procrastinates, reactionaryism, rebroadcasting, recalibrations, reciprocations, recirculations, reconsecrating, reconsecration, recreationists, recriminations, refractoriness, reincarnations, reincorporates, relubrications, resurrectional, trisoctahedron, ultraprecision. | |
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