Home › Words › C › contractariancontractariancontractarian means relating to contractarianism.EtymologyFrom contract + -arian.adjRelating to contractarianismnounAn advocate of contractarianismDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.contractualist 74% match — A proponent of contractualism. vs contractarian →contractualistic 74% match — Based on a contract vs contractarian →contractarianism 74% match — The political doctrine that the legitimacy of a government derives from a (normally unstated) contract between the government and the people (normally derived from an election) vs contractarian →contractualism 70% match — A political theory based on the idea of a social contract between a ruler and their subjects. vs contractarian →contractant 65% match — A contracting party; one that contracts. vs contractarian →contractural 63% match — Of or pertaining to contractures. vs contractarian →contractualization 62% match — The process of contractualizing. vs contractarian →contractee 62% match — A party to a contract. vs contractarian →