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Definition of Contrarious
1. Adjective. Difficult to deal with.
Definition of Contrarious
1. a. Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse.
Definition of Contrarious
1. Adjective. (archaic of persons) Tending to counter, oppose, resist, argue. ¹
2. Adjective. (archaic of things) Harmful, vexatious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contrarious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrarious
Literary usage of Contrarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A dictionary of quotations from the English poets by Henry George Bohn (1881)
"O place and greatness ! millions of false eyes Run with these false and most
contrarious quests Are stuck upon thee ; volumes of reports Make thee the ..."
2. The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: with an introduction by Thomas R by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1900)
"... I deme that contrarious Fortune profiteth 15 more to men than Fortune debonaire.
... contrarious Fortune is alwey soothfast, whan she sheweth » hir-self ..."
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