countertype
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
countertype (plural countertypes)
- A type (of person) that opposes and contrasts with another.
- 2009 June 14, Dave Kehr, “Everyman, Tempted”, in New York Times[1]:
- Sweaty, stammering and hyperactive, Lemmon seemed to embody the countertype of the monumental, granite-jawed leading men of the 1950s — stars like John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck .