Need another word that means the same as “opposition”? Find 33 synonyms and 30 related words for “opposition” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Opposition” are: confrontation, enemy, foe, foeman, resistance, opponent, opposite, oppositeness, hostility, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, objection, dissent, criticism, defiance, obstruction, counteraction, opponents, competition, competitors, opposers, rivals, adversaries, antagonists, enemies, conflict, clash, difference, contrast, disparity, antithesis, polarity
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “opposition” as a noun can have the following definitions:
adversaries | Someone who offers opposition. |
antagonism | The relation between opposing principles or forces or factors. The inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism. |
antagonists | Someone who offers opposition. When bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist. |
antipathy | A deep-seated feeling of aversion. His fundamental antipathy to capitalism. |
antithesis | Exact opposite. Love is the antithesis of selfishness. |
clash | A mismatch of colours. It is hoped that clashes of dates will be avoided. |
competition | An event or contest in which people take part in order to establish superiority or supremacy in a particular area. There is fierce competition between banks. |
competitors | The contestant you hope to defeat. |
conflict | A disagreement or argument about something important. The eternal conflict between the sexes. |
confrontation | A focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison. The race promised a classic confrontation between the two top runners in the world. |
contrast | Differences in colour, tone, or shape that contribute to the visual effect of a design or image. Match the trimming with one of the stronger colours in the pattern to provide contrast. |
counteraction | Action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action. |
criticism | The analysis and judgement of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work. The senator received severe criticism from his opponent. |
defiance | Intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude. An act of defiance. |
difference | A quantity by which amounts differ; the remainder left after subtraction of one value from another. The difference in her is amazing. |
disparity | A great difference. The arrangements could lead to disparity of treatment between companies. |
dissent | The act of protesting a public often organized manifestation of dissent. There was no dissent from this view. |
enemies | Any hostile group of people. He viewed lawyers as the real enemy. |
enemy | A personal enemy. Enemy aircraft. |
enmity | A state or feeling of active opposition or hostility. Decades of enmity between the two countries. |
foe | An enemy or opponent. They had been political foes for years. |
foeman | An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force. |
hostility | The feeling of a hostile person. He could no longer contain his hostility. |
objection | An expression or feeling of disapproval or opposition; a reason for disagreeing. They have raised no objections to the latest plans. |
obstruction | The physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction. The filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan. |
opponent | Someone who offers opposition. Against superior opponents they fell two goals behind. |
opponents | Someone who offers opposition. |
opposers | Someone who offers opposition. |
opposite | A contestant that you are matched against. We were opposites in temperament. |
oppositeness | The relation between opposed entities. |
polarity | The relative orientation of poles; the direction of a magnetic or electric field. He got the polarity of the battery reversed. |
resistance | The degree to which a substance or device opposes the passage of an electric current causing energy dissipation By Ohm s law resistance measured in ohms is equal to the voltage divided by the current. These trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog. |
rivals | The contestant you hope to defeat. He had respect for his rivals. |
conflict | Be in conflict. Doctors often come into conflict with politicians. |
conflicting | Incompatible or at variance; contradictory. There are conflicting accounts of what occurred. |
confrontation | A hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties. Four months of violent confrontation between government and opposition forces. |
contradictory | A contradictory proposition. Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness. |
counterpart | One of two copies of a legal document. The minister held talks with his French counterpart. |
cracked | (of a person’s voice) having an unusual harshness or pitch, especially through strain. You must think my family are cracked. |
differ | Be different. He differed from his contemporaries in ethical matters. |
disagree | Disapprove of. Historians often disagree. |
disagreement | The speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing. There was some disagreement about the details. |
discomfit | Make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed. He was not noticeably discomfited by her tone. |
disconcert | Cause to lose one’s composure. The abrupt change of subject disconcerted her. |
discord | (of people) disagree. We discorded commonly on two points. |
discordant | (of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony. Studies with data from discordant twins will be useful to confirm our findings. |
discrepant | Not in agreement. Widely discrepant statements. |
dissonant | Lacking harmony. Jackson employs both harmonious and dissonant colour choices. |
divisive | Tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people. The highly divisive issue of abortion. |
encounter | A hostile disagreement face-to-face. He was shot dead in a police encounter. |
enemy | A personal enemy. He viewed lawyers as the real enemy. |
factious | Relating or inclined to dissension. A factious country. |
incompatible | (of equipment, computer programs, etc.) not capable of being used in combination. Incompatible colors. |
inconsistency | An inconsistent aspect or element. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour. |
inharmonious | Not forming or contributing to a pleasing whole; discordant. An inharmonious or incongruous mixture of architectural styles. |
inhospitable | Unfavorable to life or growth. They are extremely inhospitable these days. |
objector | A person who dissents from some established policy. Objectors to the housing plans. |
opponent | Someone who competes with or opposes another in a contest, game, or argument. Opponent or opposing armies. |
oppose | Be resistant to. A majority of the electorate opposed EC membership. |
oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). |
rival | Be the rival of be in competition with. Nothing can rival cotton for durability. |
unfavorable | Not encouraging or approving or pleasing. Unfavorable conditions. |
vie | Compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something. The athletes were vying for a place in the British team. |
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