oppositional

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

Adjective

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.
    • And he has brought to oppositional politics the same energy and aggression that characterized his chess, attacking Mr. Putin and the Kremlin — or the regime, as he repeatedly calls it — with language rarely spoken so...

Origin

Etymology tree English opposition Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English oppositional From opposition + -al.

Forms

more oppositional most oppositional

Derived

counteroppositional nonoppositional oppositional defiant disorder oppositionalism oppositionality oppositionally