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adversaries

[ad-ver-ser-ee]

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noun

a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.

a person, group, etc., that is an opponent in a contest; contestant.

the Adversary, the devil; Satan.

adjective Also, especially British, ad·ver·sar·i·al

[ad-ver-sair-ee-uh

l] .

of or pertaining to an adversary.

involving adversaries, as plaintiff and defendant in a legal proceeding: an adversary trial.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English adversarie < Latin adversārius, equivalent to advers(us) (see adverse) + -ārius -ary; replacing Middle English adversere < Anglo-French

Related forms

ad·ver·sar·i·ness, noun

non·ad·ver·sar·i·al, adjective

Synonyms
1. Adversary, antagonist mean a person or a group contending against another. Adversary suggests an enemy who fights determinedly, continuously, and relentlessly: a formidable adversary. Antagonist suggests one who, in hostile spirit, opposes another, often in a particular contest or struggle: a duel with an antagonist.

Antonyms
1. ally.

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Cerezo carefully worded his proposals to convey a desire for change without unduly alarming his adversaries.

Only by correctly understanding the nature of the adversaries who launched.

For the world, it seemed a token of peace between two nuclear-armed adversaries.

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Cerezo carefully worded his proposals to convey a desire for change without unduly alarming his adversaries.

Only by correctly understanding the nature of the adversaries who launched.

For the world, it seemed a token of peace between two nuclear-armed adversaries.

The swashbuckling birds sometimes team up to overwhelm their victims, and they are relentless in chasing down their adversaries.

Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries.

If you want to neutralize pesky adversaries in wartime, disrupt their communications.

Considering the factions each represents, the two adversaries share surprising common ground.

These people will be your partners and/or your adversaries.

The president has also avoided giving adversaries anything concrete to attack.

Is it possible that he was simply trying to impede the efforts of his non-scientific adversaries.

The marine mammals would use their speed and underwater sensing abilities to look for dog-paddling adversaries.

When two adversaries struggle against each other long enough and hard enough, the axiom goes, they begin to resemble each other.

Athenians approached the island in force, the faction they supported seized the occasion to settle accounts with its adversaries.

Hungry adversaries may find it the meatiest one available.

Adversaries might then be too busy playing catch-up.

And that extra time sometimes allows adversaries to get away.

Clement is admired by colleagues and adversaries for the straightforward clarity of his presentation.

To make this situation right, listen carefully to advocates and adversaries.

Now his left-wing adversaries are coming under legal scrutiny, and some are not behaving much better.

On the contrary, he regarded them as worthy adversaries.

Africa in military matters at a time when its own army is in the middle of a delicate merging process between former adversaries.

So think of them as allies and friends, not adversaries.

He tended to dismiss adversaries as fools, rather than as merely mistaken, or half-right.

The sort of blanket bans my adversaries are calling for are quite rare.

Facebook has won an overwhelming business advantage that few adversaries will dare challenge.

Unless he can do a deal with others, his adversaries say he would get half that now.

More than anything else, he relishes a spirited debate with worthy adversaries.

And often the race is simply for companies to find disquieting information before their adversaries do.

Nor should a government fear to act because its adversaries are popular and fight back.

From the first, our adversaries have mistaken that central strength as weakness.

True he has all the advantage, for his sword is proof against those of a couple of dozen of his adversaries.

Hitler's adversaries were so demoralised by the seeming success of his regime that few offered systematic resistance.

These venomous snakes keep adversaries at bay by spitting a neurotoxin or other substance into their perceived enemy.

Which could make it pretty useful for catching creeping adversaries.

He did, however, fault his own abrasive management style for creating many adversaries throughout his decade as a.

Despite the general chaos, the line between combatants, noncombatants and adversaries was clear.

Our main adversaries have made it a high priority to have a good view into our weapons research facilities and they do".

Open source material not only fills in blanks about often-elusive adversaries.

Customs who is dedicated to his job, but has a bad habit of getting too close to his adversaries for his own good.

My adversaries are always lawyers and always put up a real battle that more than meets my needs for agression.

His presence ensures the rise of equally quixotic, equally obsessed adversaries.

Lower petroleum prices reduce the ability of our adversaries to fund terrorism.

Bigfoot provides the warfighter with real-time tracking intelligence on potential adversaries conducting threat.

Those who did well under the communist regime resent the arrogance and self-righteousness of their adversaries.

We too can communicate to our adversaries that we're on to them.

Companies value this level of candour from outside experts who may have been adversaries in the past.

Seems simple and yet it is one of the main adversaries runners face.

For the same reason some of his adversaries are happy to characterize the french president as a crypto-racist of crypto-fascist.

It is unfortunate that such an interesting debate involved such lightweight adversaries.

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Word Origin & History

adversary

early 14c., aduersere, from Anglo-Fr. adverser (13c.), from O.Fr. adversier, from L. adversarius "opponent, adversary, rival," lit. "turned toward one," from adversus "turned against" (see adverse). The L. word is glossed in O.E. by wiðerbroca. The adj. adversarial is

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attested from 1970 and probably was coined to avoid confusion which might arise with use of adversary (adj.), which is attested from late 14c.

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