Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who takes a contrary view or action, especially an investor who makes decisions that contradict prevailing wisdom, as in buying securities that are unpopular at the time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective taking an opposing view, especially a view opposite to that taken by the majority.
- noun a person who habitually takes a view opposite to that held by the majority.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who expresses a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion
- noun finance a
financial investor who tends to have anopinion ofmarket trends atvariance with most others
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
Etymologies
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Examples
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The book is only 280 pages long, but so rich in contrarian assaults on cherished American assumptions I cannot adequately summarize it.
Why low standards for education are good Jay Mathews 2010
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Highlighting this contrarian is to rub the nose of Republicans in the mire. key
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Highlighting this contrarian is to rub the nose of Republicans in the mire. key
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Your adopted role as contrarian is becoming rather trite.
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He was often described as a contrarian - a description he disowned; he was disputatious, but never, it seemed, for the sake of it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011
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He was often described as a contrarian - a description he disowned; he was disputatious, but never, it seemed, for the sake of it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011
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He was often described as a contrarian - a description he disowned; he was disputatious, but never, it seemed, for the sake of it.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011
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And, right on cue, the market is up over 30\% since we highlighted that short-term contrarian signal.
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Last week's news has raised the possibility that the GSEs could wind up actually being a profitable long-term contrarian play.
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Last week's news has raised the possibility that the GSEs could wind up actually being a profitable long-term contrarian play.
mollusque commented on the word contrarian
Am not.
May 20, 2009
nuxiy commented on the word contrarian
Haha :)
May 20, 2009
mollusque commented on the word contrarian
Bilby is.
May 20, 2009
bilby commented on the word contrarian
Am not.
May 20, 2009