contra
/ˈkɒntrə/
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American sound/ˈkɒntrə/
contra
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con - tra -> contra
Myanmar meaning
(prefix & adv & prep) ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်။
Full entry
၁။ (with vs and ns ) (ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် အနက်ရှိ ပေါင်းစပ်စကားလုံး)။
contradistinction ❍ contraceptive.
၂။ (with ns ) (music ) (သံစဉ်တစ်တွဲ စာ ဘယ်သံကျ ကြောင်းပြ ပေါင်းစပ်စကားလုံး)။ ဘယ်။ contrabassoon.
More examples
- contra- comb form ၁။ (with vs and ns ) (ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက် အနက်ရှိ ပေါင်းစပ်စကားလုံး)။ contradistinction
- contraceptive. ၂။ (with ns ) ( music ) (သံစဉ်တစ်တွဲ စာ ဘယ်သံကျ ကြောင်းပြ ပေါင်းစပ်စကားလုံး)။ ဘယ်။ contrabassoon.
Synonyms
about-face, across, adjacent, again, against, almost, another adverse, antilogy, antipode, antipole, antithesis, antonym, approaching, back, backwards, bottom, change of mind, close to, coming up, con, contradiction, contradictory, contrarily, contrariwise, contrary, contrary to, contrast, converse, conversely, counter, counter to, counterpart, counterpole, en route, exact opposite, facing, far from it, flip side, flip-flop, foil, for, fronting, headed for, in contrast to, in opposition to, in relation to, in reverse, in the direction of, in the vicinity, inverse, inversely, just before, moving, mutatis mutandis, nearing, nearly, not quite, obverse, on the contrary, on the road to, opposed to, opposing, opposite, opposite to, oppositely, opposition, other extreme, other side, other side of coin, over against, overturning, paradox, pointing to, proceeding, rear, regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversal, reverse, reversed, reversement, reversion, shortly before, switch, the opposite way, the other way around, to, turn, turn about, turn around, turnabout, turning, underside, upside down, verso, versus, via, vice versa, vis-Ã -vis, volte-face, vs, wrong side
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