Opposition
[ɒpə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ɑpə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a body of people united in opposing something.
(noun.) the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected; 'Her Majesty's loyal opposition'.
(noun.) a contestant that you are matched against.
(noun.) a direction opposite to another.
(noun.) the relation between opposed entities.
Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
(n.) The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
(n.) Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.
(n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.
(n.) The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180¡; -- signified by the symbol /; as, / / /, opposition of Jupiter to the sun.
(n.) The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Contrariety, repugnance, diversity, inconsistency.[2]. Counteraction, hostility, resistance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Resistance, hostility, obstacle, obstruction,[See ANIMOSITY]
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Definition
n. state of being placed over against: position over against: repugnance: contrariety: contrast: act or action of opposing: resistance: that which opposes: obstacle: (logic) a difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate: the party that opposes the ministry or existing administration: (astron.) the situation of heavenly bodies when 180 degrees apart.—n. Opposi′tionist one who belongs to an opposing party esp. that opposed to the government.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Editor: Nat
Examples
- For his observation was constantly confirming Mr. Farebrother's assurance that the banker would not overlook opposition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She married me in opposition to her father's wish, and he renounced her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Thus our general rules are in a manner set in opposition to each other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The Crown Prince is always in opposition to the crown or hankering after it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is not a passionate quarrel that would have broken my heart; it is the steady opposition and persistence in going wrong that he has shown. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- So much for the early opposition, of which there was plenty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Tidings of an armed and regular opposition recalled them to a sort of order. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Uncertainty has the same influence as opposition. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The Opposition of Experience and True Knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Opposition of Duty and Interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Ministers and Opposition joined. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- MAN TO MAN He lay sick and unmoved, in pure opposition to everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Indubitably the broad lines of our present world, the main ideas, the chief oppositions, were appearing in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Indifference is a criticism that cuts beneath oppositions and wranglings by calling the political method itself into question. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Roman power was expanding, and as it expanded these old class oppositions of the early Latin community were becoming unmeaning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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