subcontrary

• ⇰ Contrary in an inferior degree.
• ⇰ Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed
• ⇰ Denoting the relation of opposition between the >particular affirmative > and >particular negative >. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.

• ⇰ A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.