Contrary and Poor

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Contrary adjective - Being as different as possible.

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Poor and contrary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Contrary".

Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

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Contrary and poor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contrary" instead an adjective "Poor".

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

And in some cases, contrary to the usual course of the trope where it's someone who is born into money, this can happen to people who were originally poor only to gain money.

Source: Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
Contrary to turtles and crocodilians, lizards' fossil record is extremely poor: their gracile skeletons do not usually fossilize.

Source: Useful Notes / Prehistoric Life - Non-Dinosaurian Reptiles
A Christmas Carol: Ebenezer Scrooge, contrary to everyone else in Dickens' Victorian London, thinks that Christmas with its wasteful giving to the poor is one big (you guessed it) Humbug!

Source: Grumpy Bear / Literature

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