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Nouns (9)

n. a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"

fact

n. a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"

fact

n. a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"

fact

n. an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"

contrary

n. a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false

contrary

n. exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"

reverse, opposite, contrary

n. a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"

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Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (8)

contrary

adj. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms"

contrary, adverse

adj. in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind"

contrary, converse

adj. very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion"

contrary, unruly, wayward

adj. resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior"

Fuzzynyms (100)

verity

n. an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

component, constituent, element, ingredient, factor

n. an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

burden, core, essence, effect, gist

n. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

truth, true statement

n. a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

n. the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

actuality

n. the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"

certainty

n. the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"

episode

n. a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

happening, occurrence, natural event

n. an event that happens

truth, verity

n. conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

doctrine, creed, gospel, religious doctrine, church doctrine

n. the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

reality

n. the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities"

converse

n. a proposition obtained by conversion

contradictory, mutually exclusive

adj. unable to be both true at the same time

counter, antagonistic

adj. indicating opposition or resistance

ill, inimical

adj. indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable

adj. incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit"

uncontrollable, unruly, indocile, ungovernable

adj. of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"

uncontrollable, unmanageable

adj. difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain"

truculent, obstreperous, recalcitrant, unruly

adj. stubbornly defiant of authority or restraint: "an obstreperous almost mutinous crew"; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"; "a truculent speech against the new government"

obstinate, stubborn

adj. tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

intractable

adj. not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"

bulldog, tenacious, unyielding, dour, dogged, pertinacious

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

obstinate, obdurate, perverse, unrepentant, cussed

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

errant, erring, error-prone

adj. capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone"

aberrant, deviant, perverse

adj. markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"

rebellious, mutinous

adj. disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate"

rebellious, contumacious

adj. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"

inflexible, uncompromising

adj. not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"

unservile, unsubmissive

adj. not servile or submissive

mischievous, naughty, badly behaved

adj. badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"

insubordinate

adj. not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"

negative

adj. expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

disapproving

adj. expressing or manifesting disapproval

disorderly

adj. undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"

madcap, tearaway, brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous

adj. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

unmanageable

adj. difficult to manage or control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

refractory, recalcitrant

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

wild, untamed

adj. in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants"

Synonyms (33)

complementary

adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

contradictory

adj. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"

incompatible, contrastive

adj. of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

converse

adj. of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"

allo

adj. (prefix) indicating difference or variation: "allomorph"; "allophone"

opposite, antithetic, antithetical

adj. sharply contrasted in character or purpose; "practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs"; "hope is antithetic to despair"

various, assorted

adj. of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior"

contrastive, contrasting

adj. strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

differentiable

adj. capable of being perceived as different; "differentiable species"

divergent, differing

adj. diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion"

disparate

adj. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"

various, diverse

adj. distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth"

diverse, divers

adj. many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"

opposite, polar, diametric, diametrical

adj. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions"

variant

adj. differing from a norm or standard; "a variant spelling"

willful, wilful, froward, headstrong, self-willed

adj. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

recusant

adj. refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams

refractory

adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

Antonyms (16)

belief

n. any cognitive content held as true

abstraction, abstract

n. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"

belief

n. any cognitive content held as true

assumption, supposition

n. a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

speculation, conjecture, supposition, guess, surmise

n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

fiction

n. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

obedient

adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke

dutiful, duteous, respectful

adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife";

contrary to fact

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