| 单词 | contrary |
| 释义 | con·trary I. 1. 2. < thinking well of oneself … is the exact contrary of self-importance — F.A.Swinnerton > < pleasure and pain, wetness and dryness are contraries > 3. logic a. b. contrar·ies plural 4. contrar·ies plural, Britain • - by contraries - on the contrary - to the contrary II. 1. a. < a move contrary to government policy > < facts which point to a contrary conclusion > b. < firm in the contrary intention > : tending to an opposite or opposing course especially of thought or development < confirmatory or contrary evidence > c. < holding contrary opinions > 2. < belonging to the contrary sex > : opposite in position or direction : on the other side : in the other way < moving the contrary way > 3. < contrary to the work which ye intend — Edmund Spenser > — now used only of wind or weather < prevented by contrary winds from reaching port > 4. a. < they've been in your way all these years and you've always complained of them, so don't be contrary — Willa Cather > b. < a contrary word > < contrary act > Synonyms: < a very contrary child > < if you was to take it into your head … to marry a man like that … you wouldn't hear a single contrary word out of me or your ma — Erskine Caldwell > perverse, sometimes a stronger word, may imply wrongheaded, determined, or cranky opposition to the right, correct, established, or normal < a malicious and perverse refusal to be convinced by the “greatest and highest evidences” which God has condescended to give to men — Leslie Stephen > < Rimbaud was the rebel incarnate … he was perverse, untractable, adamant until the very last hour — Henry Miller > < usually the most affectionate and docile of wives, Maimiti was now in one of the perverse humors which accompany her condition — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > restive may imply an obstinate disinclination to follow orders or act in accordance with established custom < the common man … is increasingly restive under the state of “things as they are” — Thorstein Veblen > Increasingly in today's English it suggests a disinclination arising from restlessness or impatience < the freemen of the Massachusetts towns were restive under the strict rule of the magistrates — V.L.Parrington > balky, often applied to animals, connotes a tendency to refuse to follow certain orders or to act or function as expected < examination of witnesses mostly reluctant if not downright balky — Nation > froward implies habitual disobedience and refusal to comply with requests < Russell had always been froward, arrogant, and mutinous — T.B.Macaulay > < froward beyond control, the insurgent young physician refused to submit the validity of his opinions to the decision of the clergy — John Bennett > wayward suggests extreme self-will and preference for one's own way and often implies an almost ungovernable wantonness < one of the brightest intellects of the university, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year — A. Conan Doyle > < conceived … by a wayward mulatto girl in a tryst — Worth T. Hedden > cantankerous suggests truculent irritability < Giddy felt cantankerous and wanted to get a rise out of Kennedy — Willa Cather > < a group of people … who are, almost by definition, cantankerous, jealous, and uncooperative — James Laughlin > cross-grained stresses irascibility and perhaps moroseness < cross-grained as a hickory knot, he even resented persuasion from Emerson to convictions he already held — Isabel Paterson > ornery suggests crusty disagreeableness < you might find that bear and try to throw him, if you feel so ornery — Hervey Allen > < he's ornery, hardheaded, the damnedest … hotheaded man you ever saw — M.W.Straus > Synonym: see in addition opposite. III. now dialect < try to do as they tell you and don't contrary them — H.L.Davis > IV. |
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