contraria
∗contraria
feminine noun
also:
- llevar la contraria -> to be awkward o contrary
- ¡siempre me está llevando la contraria! -> he's always contradicting me!; (verbalmente) he always does the opposite of what I tell him! (con acciones)
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contraria [con-trah’-re-o, ah]
adjective
1Contrary, repugnant, opposite, contradictory, contrarious.
- En sentido contrario -> the other way
- Se ha interpretado en sentido contrario -> it has been interpreted in the opposite sense
2Contrary, adverse, abhorrent, cross.
3Harmful, mischievous.
- Tiempo contrario -> (Naut.) Foul weather
- Echar al contrario -> to cross the breed
- Al contrari -> or por el contrario, on the contrary
- En contrario -> against, in opposition to
- Llevar la contraria -> to contradict, to oppose
- Contrario a los intereses del país -> contrary to the nation’s interests
- Al contrario de lo que habíamos pensado -> against what we had thought
- Todo lo contrario -> quite the reverse
