English Explanatory Dictionary

quite the contrary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed.

Word forms

quite the contrary on the contrary to the contrary

Synonyms

au contraire if anything far from it quite the opposite contrariwise
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