contrariare

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to oppose
  2. (transitive) to thwart (a plan)
  3. (transitive) to annoy, bother, irritate, disgruntle
  4. (intransitive, literary, rare) to be in opposition, to contrast
  5. (intransitive, literary, rare) to oppose [with a]

Hyphenated as
con‧tra‧rià‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kon.traˈrja.re/
Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin contrāriāre. By surface analysis, contrario (“contrary”) + -are.

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