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Inverted :: Inverted (a.) Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

Absonant :: Absonant (a.) Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Unnature :: Unnature (v. t.) To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like..

Malpractice :: Malpractice (n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results..

Ill :: Ill (a.) Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper..

Differential :: Differential (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other..

Goodish :: Goodish (a.) Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Indecorous :: Indecorous (a.) Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct..

Force :: Force (n.) Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence..

Poach :: Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon..

Subcontraries :: Subcontrary (a.) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.

Contrary :: Contrary (a.) Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions..

Irony :: Irony (n.) A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words..

Opposite :: Opposite (n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite..

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method..

Unparliamentary :: Unparliamentary (a.) Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies.

Countersway :: Countersway (n.) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.

Else :: Else (adv. & conj.) Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different..

Antiphysical :: Antiphysical (a.) Contrary to nature; unnatural.

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