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Definition: Contrarian |
ContrarianNoun1. An investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Contrarian" is a common misspelling or typo for: contraries, contrition. |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A manager who seeks to buy stocks that are at a discount to their "fair value" and sell them at or in excess of that value. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| "Contrarian" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contrarian" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "contrarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | value manager (value manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | contrarian (value manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Contrarian (value manager), Value-Manager (value manager), antizyklischer Anleger (value manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | value manager (value manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontrariancay человек (a man of great worship, April-fool, bodybuilder, diarist, dieter, digamist, diner-out, fruitarian, fugleman, globe-trotter, good-timer, haemophiliac, hipster, hobbyist, hot stuff, human, human being, insomniac, interloper, irrepatriable, Job's post, kibitzer, killjoy, lawman, leading light, leaker, leaky vessel, left-winger, man, man set in authority, megalomaniac, middle-of-the-roader, name-child, Nosey Parker, nothingarian, pallbearer, person, prevaricator, prizeman, pseud, raver, returner, shopaholic, spoilsport, weather forecaster, wight 1, workaholic, worldling), который ведет себя не так, как другие. (various references) contrario (abhorrent, adverse, antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, contrary, counter, counteractive, enemy, opponent, oppose, opposite, reverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contrarian": contrarians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "contrarian" (pronounced kÄ'ntre"rēun) |
| 6 | -r e" r ē u n | agrarian, librarian. |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, disciplinarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, planarian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carnation, narration. | |
-2 letters: carrotin, raincoat. | |
-3 letters: actinon, anticar, cantina, carotin, carrion, contain, ocarina, tricorn. | |
-4 letters: acinar, action, anoint, antiar, aortic, arnica, aroint, arrant, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, carina, carrot, carton, cation, citron, contra, cortin, crania, craton, incant, intron, nation, natron, nonart, rancor, ration, tannic, trocar. | |
-5 letters: acari, acorn, actin, actor, ancon, anion, antic, antra, aorta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-n-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: contrarians. | |
+3 letters: incarceration, narrowcasting, nonparametric, reincarnation. | |
+4 letters: containerboard, contractionary, incarcerations, narrowcastings, reincarnations. | |
+5 letters: containerboards, nonagricultural, nonaristocratic, procrastinating, procrastination, transcriptional. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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