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Opposition
Found in thesaurus: action, relation, resistance, contestant, body, direction, antagonist, adversary, opposer, resister, opponent, party, political party
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opposition
n.
resistance; antagonism, hostility; opposing body or party (in politics, sports, etc.)
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Opposition
Opposition may mean or refer to:
- Opposition (planets), a term describing the position of a celestial body
- Opposition (chess), a term describing the position of the kings relative to each other
- Opposition proceeding, an administrative process available under some patent or trademark laws
- Opposition of the thumb, the location of the thumb opposite to the fingers so that the hand can grasp objects
- Square of Opposition, a type of logic diagram
- Opposition (boolean algebra), two terms with a shared literal, one positive, the other negative
- Binary opposition, a pair of related terms that are opposite in meaning
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opposition
Noun
1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"
(synonym) resistance
(hypernym) action
(hyponym) lockout
(derivation) oppose
2. the relation between opposed entities
(synonym) oppositeness
(hypernym) relation
(hyponym) antipode
3. the act of opposing groups confronting each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
(synonym) confrontation
(hypernym) resistance
(hyponym) strikebreaking
(derivation) fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend
4. a contestant that you are matched against
(synonym) opponent, opposite
(hypernym) contestant
5. a body of people united in opposing something
(hypernym) body
(hyponym) Iraqi National Congress, INC
6. a direction opposite to another
(hypernym) direction
(hyponym) orthogonality, perpendicularity, orthogonal opposition
7. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"
(synonym) enemy, foe, foeman
(hypernym) adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
(hyponym) besieger
(member-holonym) enemy
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
8. a political party opposed to the party in power and prepared to replace it if elected; "Her Majesty's loyal opposition"
(hypernym) party, political party
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Opposition (die)
nf.
opposition, resistance, antagonism, hostility
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opposition
nf.
opposition, objection, bridging, dissepiment, difference, contrast
