| contra | an artificial cloud created by an aircraft |
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| contra | make a treatment inadvisable |
| contra | (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment |
| contra | on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) |
| contra | the lowest female singing voice |
| contra | a woman singer having a contralto voice |
| contra | of or being the lowest female voice |
| contra | a device that very useful for a particular job |
| contra | (music) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together |
| contra | relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint |
| contra | a composer who specializes in counterpoint |
| contra | an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors |