opposition
opposition
nounDefinition of OPPOSITION
1
the inclination to resist <most of the opposition to the proposed smoking ban is coming from bar owners worried about its impact on their businesses>
Synonyms defiance, opposition
Related Words demur, objection, protest, remonstrance; compunction, misgiving, reservation; disobedience, noncompliance, recalcitrance
Antonyms acquiescence
2
the quality or state of being as different as possible <her actions stand in direct opposition to her words>
Related Words contradictoriness; antipode, antithesis; disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, divergence, unlikeness; inequality; conflict, disagreement, discrepancy, variance; incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness
Near Antonyms agreement, alikeness, conformity, congruity, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude; analogousness; correlation, relationship
Antonyms identicalness, sameness
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