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oppositional

[ op-uh-zish-uh-nl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

opposing, resisting, or combating; expressing a view or stance against something or someone:
In experimental film one often finds an oppositional attitude toward mainstream culture, and a desire to forge an alternative.
expressing antagonism or hostility:
Learning effective coping skills can reduce the negative influences of anger, oppositional behavior, and poor impulse control.
relating to or being in a contrastive, symmetrical, or complementary two-way relation:
This remote-controlled wooden floor lamp is a simple, efficient, seemingly oppositional pairing of the natural and technological.

That enemies—like the formerly oppositional de Klerk—can become allies.

The problem with being really satisfied with an oppositional strategy is that it makes it awfully hard to be for something.

I was never diagnosed with disorders like Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Asperger's Syndrome.

After a battery of psychological tests, Sean had been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder.

Or it can fall victim to the minefield of oppositional street politics.

To this normal state of oppositional contraction the name "muscular tonicity" is given.

Thereupon the oppositional elements increased in numbers and displayed a marked combative disposition.

Oppositional splendour is there, and the stained radiance of a Bachian chorale.

He reveals a genuine feeling for his subjects, and always tries to introduce into his works a simple oppositional line.

The oppositional Evening Journal has missed a capital opportunity of weeping over the barbarity of the soldateska.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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