Complete Definition of "contrariwise"

English
Adverb
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  1. in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction

#on the other hand

Quotations
in the opposite direction
1955: Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs. / Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, / Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise, / A wave drops like a wall: another follows, / Wilting and scrambling — Philip Larkin, 'Absences', from The Less Deceived, 1955

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