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

Untrue :: Untrue (a.) Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue..

Counter :: Counter (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a..

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..

Forbid :: Forbid (v. t.) To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict..

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..

Undercurrent :: Undercurrent (n.) A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface..

Dehorter :: Dehorter (n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary..

Counter :: Counter (a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue..

Counterplead :: Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

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

Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa..

Yodle :: Yodle (v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble..

Denial :: Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation..

Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects..

Stationary :: Stationary (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary..

Eddy :: Eddy (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current..

Repugnant :: Repugnant (a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature..

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