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Nouns (9)

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

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. 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"

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"

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, contrary, opposite

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

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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

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

adverse, contrary

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

contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward

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

Fuzzynyms (79)

certainty

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

verity

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

certainty

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

factor

n. an independent variable in statistics

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, occurrent, natural event

n. an event that happens

truth, the true, verity, trueness

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"

gospel

n. a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance; "Newton's writings were gospel for those who followed"

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"

effect, essence, burden, core, 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"

gospel

n. a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance; "Newton's writings were gospel for those who followed"

converse

n. a proposition obtained by conversion

contradictory, mutually exclusive

adj. unable to be both true at the same time

antagonistic, counter

adj. indicating opposition or resistance

ill

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"

indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly

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"

recalcitrant

adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate

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"

dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

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"

cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

erring, error-prone

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

aberrant, deviant, deviate

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

mutinous

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

rebellious

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

uncompromising, sturdy, inflexible

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

unservile, unsubmissive

adj. not servile or submissive

naughty

adj. badly behaved; "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"

impetuous

adj. marked by violent force; "impetuous heaving waves"

unmanageable, difficult

adj. hard to 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 (32)

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"

contrastive, incompatible

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

adj. altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade

assorted, various

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"

contrasting, contrastive

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

differentiable

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

divergent

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"

diverse, various

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"

divers(a), diverse

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

diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar

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. exhibiting variation and change; "letters variant in size"

froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful

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

fractious, refractory, recalcitrant

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

Antonyms (17)

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

supposition, supposal

n. the cognitive process of supposing

belief

n. any cognitive content held as true

fiction

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

guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis

n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

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

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";

believe gullibly > careless > evenhandedly > naked as the day one was born > sleazy > oblique case > abruptly pinnate > contrary to fact

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