Word Meanings - CONTRARIWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9. 2. In a contrary order; conversely. Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time,

Additional info about word: CONTRARIWISE

1. On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing. 1 Pet. iii. 9. 2. In a contrary order; conversely. Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise. Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to CONTRARIWISE)

• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• RAILING
  1. A barrier made of a rail or of rails. 2. Rails in general; also, material for making rails.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• BLESSEDLY
  Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
• RAILLEUR
  A banterer; a jester; a mocker. Wycherley.
• RAILER
  One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
• CONVERSELY
  In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• RAILROAD; RAILWAY
  1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• RAILINGLY
  With scoffing or insulting language.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• BLESSED
  Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her free. R. D. Blackmore. (more info) 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.