contrasuggestible

adjective

Liable to respond to psychological suggestion by doing the opposite.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivecontrasuggestible (comparative more contrasuggestible, superlative most contrasuggestible)

comparative more contrasuggestible · superlative most contrasuggestible

  1. Liable to respond to psychological suggestion by doing the opposite.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Englishcontra-
  9. Englishsuggestible
  10. Englishcontrasuggestible

From contra- + suggestible.

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