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1 | 99% | 5 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 29% | 12 | Contrary or contrary-minded | |
3 | 27% | 15 | A word that has an underlying meaning that is contrary to another word but not directly contrary | |
August That Isnt Bitter On The Contrary Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "REGAL" which means:
- adjective satellite
- • Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler adjective
- • Of or relating to royalty.
- • Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress. noun
- • A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. the regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- • An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.
An example sentence would be:
- • "The queen sat on her regal throne."
- • "He had a regal aura about him."
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