Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: in teenstelling
- Amharic: ተቃራኒ
- Arabic: العكس
- Azerbaijani: əksinə
- Bashkir: киреһенсә
- Belarusian: наадварот
- Bulgarian: напротив
- Bengali: বিপরীত
- Bosnian: suprotno
- Catalan: contrari
- Cebuano: sukwahi
- Czech: naopak
- Welsh: yn groes
- Danish: i modsætning
- German: im Gegensatz
- Greek: αντίθετα
- Esperanto: kontraŭa
- Spanish: contrario
- Estonian: vastupidi
- Basque: kontrakoa
- Persian: عکس
- Finnish: päinvastoin
- French: contraire
- Irish: a mhalairt
- Scottish Gaelic: tha iad a
- Galician: ao contrario
- Gujarati: વિપરીત
- Hebrew: בניגוד
- Hindi: इसके विपरीत
- Croatian: naprotiv
- Haitian: kontrè a
- Hungarian: ellentétes
- Armenian: հակառակը
- Indonesian: sebaliknya
- Icelandic: þvert
- Italian: contrario
- Japanese: 逆に
- Javanese: nalisir
- Georgian: პირიქით
- Kazakh: керісінше
- Khmer: ផ្ទុយម
- Kannada: ಬದಲಾಗಿ
- Korean: 반대
- Kyrgyz: тескерисинче
- Latin: contra
- Luxembourgish: am Géigesaz
- Lao: ກົງກັນຂ້າມ
- Lithuanian: priešingai
- Latvian: pretēji
- Malagasy: mifanohitra
- Mari: мӧҥгешла
- Maori: anga ke
- Macedonian: спротивно
- Malayalam: വിരുദ്ധമായി
- Mongolian: эсрэг
- Marathi: उलट
- Hill Mari: анеш
- Malay: sebaliknya
- Maltese: kuntrarju
- Burmese: ဆန့်ကျင်
- Nepali: विपरीत
- Dutch: in tegenstelling
- Norwegian: motsetning
- Punjabi: ਇਸ ਦੇ ਉਲਟ
- Papiamento: alkontrario
- Polish: odwrotnie
- Portuguese: contrariamente
- Romanian: contrar
- Russian: наоборот
- Sinhalese: ඒ වෙනුවට
- Slovak: je v rozpore
- Slovenian: v nasprotju
- Albanian: në kundërshtim
- Serbian: напротив
- Sundanese: sabalikna
- Swedish: i motsats
- Swahili: kinyume
- Tamil: மாறாக
- Telugu: విరుద్ధంగా
- Tajik: баръакс
- Thai: ตรงกันข้าม
- Tagalog: salungat
- Turkish: aksine
- Tatar: киресенчә
- Udmurt: мыддоринтыны
- Ukrainian: навпаки
- Urdu: اس کے برعکس
- Uzbek: aksincha
- Vietnamese: ngược lại
- Xhosa: ephikisana
- Yiddish: פאַרקערט
- Chinese: 相反的
Synonyms, close and similar words for contrary
- vice versa
- conversely
- contrariwise
- by contrast
- on the contrary
- inversely
- rather
- despite
- notwithstanding
- contrarily
- other way
- back to front
- other way round
- reverse
- contradistinction
- counter
- contradictory
- antithesis
- obverse
- antipode
- disagree
- in defiance
- repugnant
- repulsive
- opposite
- adverse
- antithetical
- opposed
- antipodal
- in contrast
- willful
- wilful
- wayward
- obstinate
- balky
- froward