CONTRARIAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does contrarian mean? 

• CONTRARIAN (noun)
  The noun CONTRARIAN has 1 sense:

1. an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors

  Familiarity information: CONTRARIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRARIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("contrarian" is a kind of...):

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

 Context examples 

The last telltale sign of Planet Nine's presence involves the solar system's contrarians: objects from the Kuiper Belt that orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)