What does quite the contrary mean?

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quite the contrary

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English

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on the contrary (alternative) to the contrary (alternative)

What does quite the contrary mean?: opposite of what had earlier been expected or assumed.

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