Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contrarious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contrarious \Con*tra"ri*ous\, a. [LL. contrariosus: cf. OF.
contrarios contralius.]
Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] --Milton.
She flew contrarious in the face of God. --Mrs.
Browning.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
contrarious
adj : difficult to deal with [syn: {cross-grained}]
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