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contrapose

contrapose verb: to place in contraposition.

Verb

contrapose (third-person singular simple present contraposes, present participle contraposing, simple past and past participle contraposed)

  1. (transitive) To place in contraposition.
    • Near-synonym: juxtapose
    • We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language.2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, →ISBN, page 214
  2. (intransitive) To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.
    • At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent.1999, Richard Lentz, Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King, →ISBN, page 119
    • In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;2004, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Does the World Exist?: Plurisignificant Ciphering of Reality, →ISBN

contrapose meaning in Bengali

contrapose in Bengali

বিপরীতে স্থাপন করা, তুলনা করা

Examples of contrapose in a sentence

  • To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.2006, Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science, →ISBN, page 461:
  • But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition.2015, Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency, →ISBN, page 120:

Synonyms of contrapose

Forms of contrapose

third-person singular presentcontraposes
present participlecontraposing
past participlecontraposed
pastcontraposed

Origin of contrapose

From French contraposer.

Questions about contrapose

What does contrapose mean?
Contrapose means to place in contraposition.
What is contrapose in Bengali?
Contrapose in Bengali is বিপরীতে স্থাপন করা, তুলনা করা. See Contrapose meaning in Bengali.
How do you use contrapose in a sentence?
To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements.
What part of speech is contrapose?
Contrapose is a verb.
What is the past tense of contrapose?
The past tense of contrapose is contraposed.

Words near contrapose in the dictionary

  1. contrapasso
  2. contrapathologic
  3. contraplex
  4. contrapolar
  5. contraponend
  6. contrapose
  7. contraposed
  8. contraposes
  9. contraposing
  10. contraposition
  11. contrapositions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrapose (page history and authors); contrapose (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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