Synonyms of oppositions

oppositions

noun

plural of opposition

as in objections

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 & Similar Words

• objections
• resistances
• defiances
• protests
• remonstrances
• disobediences
• compunctions
• misgivings
• demurs
• reservations
• recalcitrances
• noncompliances

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approvals
• compliances
• acquiescences
• acceptances
• obediences

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of oppositions

There was a July 29 deadline for people to submit oppositions to the petitions to deny ABC’s license renewals, and there is an August 5 deadline for replies to the opposition filings. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026

In astrology, oppositions expose tension between two elemental forces, often through external circumstances or confrontations that make conflicted feelings impossible to ignore. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026

Along with her own moral oppositions, O'Donnell recounted facing pushback from her teenage child, Clay. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 27 May 2026

With Trump, these oppositions are never absolute. — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026

Some of their goals from throw-ins, with oppositions backing off in anticipation and possibly fear of one of Pinnock’s long throws, have also come from quick restarts and delivering quality crosses into the box. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026

In myth and art, de Bres notes, twins stand in for any number of symbolic oppositions. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

Such countervailing power greatly exceeds anything available to oppositions in Hungary, India, or Turkey, let alone in El Salvador, Venezuela, Russia, and other autocracies. — Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025

Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025