He likes to adopt a contrarian view just for the hell of it.
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Contrarian
//kənˈtɹɛə.ɹi.ən//
Synonyms for "contrarian"
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34 translations across 12 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 槓精 /杠精 noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- 槓頭 /杠头 noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Czech
1 entries- opozičník noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Dutch
1 entries- tegendraads adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Finnish
4 entries- vastarintainen adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- vastavirtainen adj (having an opinion of market trends at variance with most others)
- vastusteleva adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- toisinajattelija noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
French
4 entries- anti-conformiste noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- contradicteur noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- rebroussier (Meridional French, especially Nîmes) noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- rebroussière (Meridional French, especially Nîmes) noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
German
4 entries- konträr adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- Querdenker noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- Querdenkerin noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- Querkopf noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Greek
1 entries- πνεύμα αντιλογίας noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Italian
3 entries- controcorrente adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- fuori dal coro adj (liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- bastian contrario noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Macedonian
1 entries- контраш noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Polish
3 entries- odmianek (Far Masovian) noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- przeciwmówca noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- przekornik noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Spanish
4 entries- alguien a quien le gusta llevar la contraria noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- anticonformista noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- antilógico noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
- contrera noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Yiddish
1 entries- אפּכא־מסתּבראניק noun (person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He is such a contrarian that when I said how steep a climb it was, he insisted we were going downhill.
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Why would you say that unless you were just trying to be contrarian?
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You're not a leftist; you're a contrarian edgelord who typically sides with the far right.
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