| contra | in an opposing direction |
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| contra | resistant to guidance or discipline |
| contra | very opposed in nature or character or purpose |
| contra | of words so related that both cannot be true but both may be false |
| contra | going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) |
| contra | the act of distinguishing by comparing differences |
| contra | (photography) the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) |
| contra | the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors |
| contra | a conceptual separation or demarcation |
| contra | the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared |
| contra | put in opposition to show or emphasize differences |
| contra | to show differences when compared |