contrarian

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈtɹɛə.ɹi.ən/
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• General-American: /kənˈtɹɛ.ɹi.ən/
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• General-American: /ˌkɑnˈ-/
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• rhymes with -ɛəɹiən
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• rhymes with -ɛɹiən
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• rhymes with -æɹiən
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA2 N T R EH1 R IY0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English contrary Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English libertarianinflu. English contrarian From contrary + -an (suffix forming agent nouns; and meaning of or pertaining to forming adjectives), modelled after words like libertarian.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: tegendraads — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastarintainen — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastusteleva — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• German: konträr — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Italian: controcorrente — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Italian: fuori dal coro — liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastavirtainen — having an opinion of market trends at variance with most others
• Chinese Mandarin: 槓精 /杠精 (gàngjīng) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Chinese Mandarin: 槓頭 /杠头 (gàngtóu) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Czech: opozičník — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastarannan kiiski — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastustelija — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: toisinajattelija — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• French: anti-conformiste — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• French: contradicteur — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• French: rebroussier (Meridional French, especially Nîmes) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• French: rebroussière (Meridional French, especially Nîmes) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• German: Querdenker — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• German: Querdenkerin — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• German: Querkopf — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Greek: πνεύμα αντιλογίας (pnévma antilogías) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Italian: bastian contrario — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Macedonian: контраш (kontraš) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Polish: odmianek (Far Masovian) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Polish: przeciwmówca — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Polish: przekornik — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Spanish: contreras — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Spanish: contrera — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Spanish: gustarle llevar la contraria — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Spanish: anticonformista — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Spanish: inconformista — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Yiddish: אפּכא־מסתּבראניק (ipkhe-mistebrenik) — person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people
• Finnish: vastavirtasijoittaja — financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others