contrariouslyadv.
rare in modern use.
In a contrarious manner; in opposition or hostility; with self-willed perversity.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adverb]
witherc1200
contrariouslyc1380
overthwartlya1425
adversarilyc1475
incontrary1488
incontrair?a1500
contrairly1535
thwartly1558
adversatively1571
sinisterlya1600
kim-kam1603
antagonistically1610
cross1614
oppositively1622
thwarta1628
counter1643
reverse1649
counter-bias1656
contrariwise1682
contrarily1781
antipathetically1818
opposingly1842
hostilely1876
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adverb]
fromward?c1225
contrariouslyc1380
contrarying to1382
reversinglya1425
contrary1463
clean fro1483
repugnantly?1526
diametrally?1533
contrairly1535
in diameter1543
thwartly1558
oppositely1567
contrarily1570
contrariwise1574
diameter-wise1600
diameterly1603
reciprocallya1628
diametrically1633
counter1643
encounter1660
polarly1670
Antarcticallya1711
contrariantly1796
antithetically1816
tout au contraire1841
antistrophically1842
contrapositively1858
in reverse1869
at cross-corners with1892
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably
illc1325
contrariouslyc1380
amissa1425
contrary1497
sinisterly1529
overthwart1556
thwartingly1579
froward1580
adversely1593
crossly1597
unpropitiously1602
cross1603
disfavourably1654
cloudily1792
unfavourably1833
askew1858
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > perversely
witherc1200
contrariouslyc1380
waywardly1395
frowardlya1400
overthwartlya1425
wrawlyc1440
protervely1447
perverselya1513
thrawnlya1522
perversedlya1525
thrawartly1533
thwartly1558
backwardlya1586
unreclaimablya1616
peevishlya1680
untowardly1682
bloody-mindedly1716
wrong-headedly1737
thrawart-like1768
cross-grained1825
pigheadedly1836
cussedly1868
contrariwise1873
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adverb] > unfavourably
contrariously1511
maliciously1677
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 60 Siþ prelatis comen in stede of apostlis, hou may þei for schame lyue so contrariously aȝenst here pore lif.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 24 Fortune is double..Contra [r] iously she will his chaunge dispose.
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xliij The wynde Arose eft sones so Contrariously ayenst vs.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxii He demeanyd hym so Ille, and so contraryouslye vnto the weale & good ordre of ye Cytie.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 132 b He was so contrariously afflicted in many battels.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 206 Many things hauing full reference To one consent, may worke contrariously . View more context for this quotation
1867 J. W. Hales in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 352 Affection often..expresses itself contrariously. It is much given to irony.
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