contrapose
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: juxtapose"
- "We certainly do not want to take our simple categorical statements and contrapose them into cumbersome natural language."
- "To contrapose an argument one swaps the conclusion with any one of the premisses and negates each of the swapped statements."
- "But subjunctive conditionals do not contrapose, and we are misled into accepting a sensitivity condition by confusing it with a safety condition."
- "At such moments, King was contraposed against the more frightening threat, his symbolism making the radicalism of the other party all the more apparent."
- "In fact, whereas the term existence is contraposed to non-existence, the term factual or empirical is contraposed to essential;"
Etymology
From French contraposer.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: contraposer