Usually means: Opposes popular opinion; often unconventional.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word contrarian:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. contrarian: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contrarian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contrarian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contrarian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contrarian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contrarian, contrarian: Wordnik
  7. contrarian: Wiktionary
  8. contrarian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contrarian: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. contrarian: Dictionary.com
  11. Contrarian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. contrarian: Rhymezone
  13. contrarian: Free Dictionary
  14. contrarian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. contrarian: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Contrarian: bizterms.net
  4. contrarian: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. Contrarian: Investopedia
  6. Contrarian: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contrarian: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contrarian: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion, usually because of spite or nonconformity.
noun:  (finance) A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others.
adjective:  Pertaining to or characteristic of a contrarian.

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