Word Meanings - CONTRAVENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to

Additional info about word: CONTRAVENE

1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law. Laws that place the subjects in such a state contravene the first principles of the compact of authority. Johnson. Syn. -- To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross; obstruct; baffle; thwart.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTRAVENE)

• Contradict
• Oppose
• dissent
• negative
• controvert
• deny
• disprove
• confute
• refute
• gainsay
• contravene
• Infringe
• Break
• violate
• transgress
• Object to Oppose
• obstruct
• defer to
• except to
• disapprove
• Withstand
• resist
• mutch
• confront
• oppugn
• bar
• hinder
• check
• thwart
• Transgress
• pass
• disobey
• sin
• offend
• infringe
• trespass

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTRAVENE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet

Related words: (words related to CONTRAVENE)

• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• DISOBEYER
  One who disobeys.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• NEGATIVE
  Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition. (more info) 1. Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.