contrarious

1. 1.

   difficult to deal with

   Synonymscross-grained

   Similarstubborn

Questions about contrarious

What does contrarious mean?

contrarious means "difficult to deal with".

How many syllables are in contrarious?

contrarious has 4 syllables: con-tra-ri-ous. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for contrarious?

Close synonyms include cross-grained. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contrarious a common word?

contrarious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.