The phrase "contrary meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing words, phrases, or concepts that have opposing interpretations or definitions.
Example: "The term 'freedom' can have a contrary meaning depending on the context in which it is used."
Alternatives: "opposite meaning" or "antithetical meaning".
It is many years now since a sub editor advised me never to use the words prestigious or esteemed, because they always convey a contrary meaning to what is intended.
It weaves solidities out of gossamer assumptions to attribute to fleeting and argumentative implications of fact in a leading question an impact so ponderous as to discredit and reverse a jury's verdict in the context of a record that impressively carries the contrary meaning.
The problem is that non debere peccare is standardly used to convey the contrary meaning debere non peccare rather than the literal contradictory ("it is not a duty to sin").
From the time of the French Revolution, when the more radical delegates to the National Assembly seated themselves to the left of the presiding officer, left has designated a relatively stable, though evolving and multi-faceted, political orientation; and right took on a corresponding, contrary meaning.
Ambrose Bierce, for instance, was sure that restive and restless should have "directly contrary meanings".
In the last 400 years, who more than Shakespeare has been so directly responsible for transmitting the particular electrical charge that Emily Dickinson described -- the recognition of sudden and contrary meanings colliding in your brain, a certain top-of-your-head-being-taken-off feeling?
"Sanctionable" is one of a few English words to have two contrary meanings: legally punishable and ethically approvable.
Traditionally, the put-call ratio has been viewed as a contrary indicator, meaning that if investors were buying a lot of puts, it was viewed as an indication that bearishness had reached an extreme and the market might soon rally.
Its name is derived from the Algonquian word meaning "contrary stream".
The second group is formed of instances where the contrary is true, meaning that the LM presence/absence is better distinguished by the global conservation (Figure 3B).
On the contrary, the meaning of AK depends on the runtime network state and it can either increase or decrease.
