Synonyms of the word

opposition

• n. The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
• n. An opposite or contrasting position.
• n. (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees…
• n. (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
• n. (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent…
• n. (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance…

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

adversary

• n. An opponent or rival.

antagonist

• n. An opponent or enemy.
• n. One who antagonizes or stirs.
• n. (biochemistry) A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking…
• n. The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
• n. (anatomy) A muscle that acts in opposition to another.

body

• n. Physical frame.
• n. Main section.
• n. Coherent group.
• n. Material entity.
• n. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
• n. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
• v. To give body or shape to something.
• v. To construct the bodywork of a car.
• v. (transitive) To embody.

confrontation

• n. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
• n. A conflict between armed forces.

contestant

• n. A participant in a contest.

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

enemy

• n. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone…
• n. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
• n. An alliance of such forces.
• n. Something harmful or threatening to another.
• adj. of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

foe

• adj. (obsolete) Hostile.
• n. An enemy.
• n. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

foeman

• n. An enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon.

opponent

• n. An individual or group who is a rival of another.
• n. One who attempts to stop the progression of.
• n. One who objects to.
• n. In team sports, a player of an opposite team.
• adj. Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

opposer

• n. One who opposes, one who shows opposition.

opposite

• adj. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
• adj. (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
• adj. Facing in the other direction.
• adj. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
• adj. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
• n. Something opposite or contrary to another.
• n. An opponent.
• n. An antonym.
• n. (mathematics) An additive inverse.
• adv. In an opposite position.
• prep. Facing, or across from.
• prep. In a complementary role to.
• prep. (television) On another channel at the same time.

oppositeness

• n. The state or condition of being opposite.

party

• n. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
• n. A person.
• n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
• n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues…
• n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
• n. A social gathering.
• n. (obsolete) A part or division.
• v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
• v. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
• v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
• adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
• adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
• adv. (obsolete) Partly.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

resistance

• n. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
• n. (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
• n. (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
• n. An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance…

resister

• n. Alternative form of resistor.