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View synonyms for on the contrary

on the contrary



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It's the opposite, as in Is his shoulder hurting?—On the contrary, it's all better , or We thought you didn't like opera.—On the contrary, I love it . This phrase, at first put as by or for or in the contrary , dates from the late 1300s; on has been used since the mid-1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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