Thesaurus / contraries
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synonyms for contraries
- antithesis
- contrary
- antipode
- antonym
- contra
- contradiction
- contrast
- converse
- counterpart
- foil
- inverse
- obverse
- opposition
- paradox
- reverse
- another adverse
- antilogy
- antipole
- other extreme
- other side
- other side of coin
- vice versa
- reversal
- about-face
- antipode
- antithesis
- back
- bottom
- contra
- contradiction
- contradictory
- contrary
- converse
- counter
- flip-flop
- inverse
- overturning
- rear
- regression
- retrogression
- retroversion
- reversion
- switch
- turn
- turnabout
- turning
- underside
- verso
- volte-face
- antipole
- change of mind
- counterpole
- flip side
- other side
- reversement
- turnaround
- wrong side
- belligerent
- combativeness
- contentiousness
- contrary
- scrappiness
- combative
- contentious
- controversial
- disputatious
- disputatiousness
- factious
- fire-eating
- having a chip on one's shoulder
- litigious
- opinionated
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- salty
- scrappy
- spiky
- touchy
- antipode
- contra
- contradictory
- contrary
- contrast
- converse
- counter
- inverse
- reverse
- antipole
- flip side
- other side
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How to use contraries in a sentence
Shall the affections which consist in the forms and powers, and their contraries, the privations, be called qualities?
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)Consequently, objects which have something in common in the respect of colors could not be contraries.
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)At present attention may be called only to one remarkable trait, namely: the interpretation of dreams by contraries.
CURRENT SUPERSTITIONSVARIOUSWaterloo, by the way, is the strangest encounter recorded in history; Napoleon and Wellington are not enemies, but contraries.
THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS, RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. VII (OF X)--CONTINENTAL EUROPE IVARIOUSMotion and Rest are contraries; yet we say that each and both are Realities or Entia.
PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES, 3RD ED. VOLUME III (OF 4)GEORGE GROTEEvery thing in the universe has its opposite; and opposites, in regard to each other, are not relatives, but contraries.
THE DELIGHTS OF WISDOM PERTAINING TO CONJUGIAL LOVEEMANUEL SWEDENBORGThe action of multiplicity, and of its creators, the "contraries," engenders still other causes of suffering.
REINCARNATIONTH. PASCALSub-contraries can never be both false, but both may be true.
THE ART OF LOGICAL THINKINGWILLIAM WALKER ATKINSONOf the Contraries: If one is true the other must be false; but, both may be false.
THOUGHT-CULTUREWILLIAM WALKER ATKINSONFor caution seems to be in a manner contrary to confidence, and contraries are in no way consistent.
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