on the contrary
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (conjunctive) Opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed. Simply, "Instead of".
- The way he was so angry he would have hit me too but on the contrary he made peace with me.
- (opposite of what had earlier been assumed) au contraire, if anything, far from it
- contrariwise
- French: au contraire
- German: im Gegenteil
- Italian: al contrario, anzi
- Portuguese: ao contrário, pelo contrário
- Russian: наоборо́т
- Spanish: al contrario, por el contrario
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