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[ adverb ] contrary to expectations
Synonyms Examples "he didn't stay home on the contrary, he went out with his friends" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)On_the_contrary , even in the heart of `` the Bible_belt '' itself , as can be attested by any one who is called to work there , the industrial and technological_revolutions have long been under_way , together with the corresponding changes in man 's picture of himself and his world . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)I hold , on_the_contrary , that we mean to assert something of the pain itself , namely , that it was bad - bad when and as it occurred . Indeed we should say , on_the_contrary , that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal 's pain , that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)The supposed tactual sense of spatial location and orientation in the patient and his ability to specify the location of a member , as_well_as the direction and scope of a movement , passively executed ( with one of his members ) , proved to have been , on_the_contrary , very considerably affected '' . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)On_the_contrary , he was pleased that his face showed a neglect of several days . |
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