Dictionary of English - contrary or converse
contrary or converse
If a thing is contrary it either differs or disagrees: I took the contrary view, that we should go by train rather than drive. If something is converse it is the opposite: I held the converse view: that museums should be privatized, not nationalized.
In the sense 'differing' contrary is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable. In its other sense, 'perverse', it is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable, so that the end rhymes with Mary.
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