opposition

opposition

noun

Definition 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

Near Antonyms compliance, obedience; acceptance, approval

Antonyms acquiescence

2

the quality or state of being as different as possible <her actions stand in direct opposition to her words>

Synonyms contrariness, oppositeness, opposition, polarity

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