All contraries synonyms

noun contraries

• opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
• opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
• argumentativeness — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
• renunciation — an act or instance of relinquishing, abandoning, repudiating, or sacrificing something, as a right, title, person, or ambition: the king's renunciation of the throne.
• repudiation — the act of repudiating.
• reversal — an act or instance of reversing.
• inverse — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• converse — If you converse with someone, you talk to them. You can also say that two people converse.
• contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
• antipode — the exact or direct opposite
• contradictory — If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
• contrast — A contrast is a great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them.
• counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
• contra — against
• obverse — the side of a coin, medal, flag, etc., that bears the principal design (opposed to reverse).
• antithesis — The antithesis of something is its exact opposite.
• proscription — the act of proscribing.
• nullity — the state or quality of being null; nothingness; invalidity.
• blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
• nonexistence — absence of existence.
• no — classic drama of Japan, developed chiefly in the 14th century, employing verse, prose, choral song, and dance in highly conventionalized formal and thematic patterns derived from religious sources and folk myths.
• vacuity — the state of being vacuous or without contents; vacancy; emptiness: the vacuity of the open sea.
• nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
• opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• void — Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
• refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• antonym — The antonym of a word is a word which means the opposite.
• rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
• nothingness — the state of being nothing.
• counterpart — Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place.
• cancellation — the fact or an instance of cancelling
• disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
• neutralization — the act, process, or an instance of neutralizing.
• disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• about-face — An about-face is a complete change of attitude or opinion.
• back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
• underside — an under or lower side.
• regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
• bottom — The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.
• flip-flop — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.
• reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
• rear — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
• turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.