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Contracture
- noun - an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle
Contradance
- noun - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
- perform a contradance
Contradicts
- verb - be in contradiction with
- be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion"
- deny the truth of
- prove negative; show to be false
Contraption
- noun - a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
Contrarians
- noun - an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
Contrariant
- - Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory.
Contrariety
- noun - the relation between contraries
Contrarious
- adjective - difficult to deal with
Contrasting
- verb - put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
- strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
Contrastive
- adjective - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
- strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"