Matching Words
3475 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
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"
Contratenor
- - Counter tenor; contralto.
Contravened
- verb - deny the truth of
- go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"