contrário
Portuguese, adjective
contrário is spelled C-O-N-T-R-Á-R-I-O (9 letters) and appears 95 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,031st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contrário is a Portuguese adjective meaning “contrary, opposite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, contrario is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of contrariar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “oposto”.
What does contrário mean in English?
adjective
- 1
contrary, opposite
- 2
opposed, against
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of contrariar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. oposto 2. desfavorável
noun: 1. sentido contrário; oposto
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of contrário
- contrária feminine
- contrários masculine plural
- contrárias feminine plural
- contrario alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to contrário
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contrário in Portuguese?
contrário appears 95 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).