Synonyms for Against the grain:

• adj.

  •opposed/opposing (adjective)
  • Denying,
  • antithetical,
  • allergic,
  • disputed,
  • contrary,
  • Combating,
  • Exposing,
  • defending,
  • confronting,
  • enemy,
  • Objecting,
  • Disputing,
  • warring,
  • antonymous,
  • Battling,
  • clashing,
  • crossing,
  • disagreeing,
  • defensive,
  • rival,
  • repelling,
  • irreconcilable,
  • protesting,
  • facing,
  • antipathetic,
  • Controverting,
  • opposite,
  • hostile,
  • conflicting,
  • inimical,
  • averse,
  • Gainsaying,
  • incompatible.
  •oppositional (adjective)
  • adverse,
  • adversarial,
  • antagonistic.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dissentient,
  • up against,
  • anti,
  • at odds,
  • unwilling,
  • in opposition,
  • at cross purposes,
  • at cross-purposes,
  • obstructive,
  • restrictive.
  •unwilling (adjective)
  • indocile,
  • malcontent,
  • shrinking,
  • grudging,
  • uneager,
  • laggard,
  • indisposed,
  • reluctant,
  • involuntary,
  • Against,
  • disobliging,
  • afraid,
  • evasive,
  • recalcitrant,
  • unready,
  • loath,
  • refractory,
  • unaccommodating,
  • shy,
  • compelled,
  • Demurring,
  • slow,
  • resistant,
  • uncheerful,
  • uncooperative,
  • forced,
  • unwishful,
  • remiss,
  • slack,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • disinclined,
  • begrudging,
  • hesitating,
  • unobliging,
  • uninclined,
  • wayward.

• n.

  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • counterclockwise.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • opposed.
  •Other relevant words:
  • slump,
  • perversely,
  • dorsum,
  • ford,
  • loathly,
  • cheerless,
  • unsuited,
  • disgusting,
  • dim,
  • loathsome,
  • out,
  • antonym,
  • ill-tempered,
  • get across,
  • ill-sorted,
  • quite,
  • obliquely,
  • mark,
  • recusant,
  • disorderly,
  • intersect,
  • obstinate,
  • spoil,
  • insubordinate,
  • heels over head,
  • unlikeable,
  • hesitant,
  • antithetic,
  • competition,
  • curly-grained,
  • revolting,
  • crabby,
  • unbearable,
  • bilk,
  • mismated,
  • backbone,
  • inappropriate,
  • unvoluntary,
  • shrinkage,
  • cut through,
  • falloff,
  • span,
  • timid,
  • sooner,
  • deadening,
  • sideboard,
  • defensive attitude,
  • drop-off,
  • face-to-face,
  • crosswalk,
  • back up,
  • disaffected,
  • abaft,
  • forth,
  • equal,
  • opposition,
  • poke,
  • unfriendly,
  • crown of thorns,
  • anticipate,
  • drone,
  • unendurable,
  • punt,
  • transversal,
  • counterpunch,
  • ho-hum,
  • diametric,
  • belligerent,
  • book binding,
  • morass,
  • intersection,
  • by,
  • sensitized,
  • into the wind,
  • unsavoury,
  • dawdler,
  • pass over,
  • polar,
  • slake,
  • let up,
  • sweep,
  • foresee,
  • frustrate,
  • mire,
  • scrimy,
  • dissenting,
  • crabbed,
  • thwart,
  • backrest,
  • inauspicious,
  • kinda,
  • poky,
  • outside,
  • crossbreeding,
  • rear,
  • replication,
  • hybridisation,
  • crisscross,
  • supersensitive,
  • retard,
  • unwell,
  • repellant,
  • parry,
  • wearisome,
  • tabulator,
  • tiresome,
  • hindering,
  • traverse,
  • detestable,
  • relax,
  • ungovernable,
  • lax,
  • foil,
  • topsy-turvily,
  • get over,
  • impeding,
  • support,
  • hybridizing,
  • delinquent,
  • loose,
  • aft,
  • pokey,
  • bad-tempered,
  • lagger,
  • cladding,
  • immune,
  • foeman,
  • sensitised,
  • in great confusion,
  • unsavory,
  • contrastive,
  • strained,
  • tedious,
  • antipathetical,
  • gage,
  • return,
  • fussy,
  • dull,
  • obscene,
  • discrepant,
  • higgledy-piggledy,
  • heel counter,
  • reverse,
  • off,
  • track,
  • second,
  • dissonant,
  • perverted,
  • differently,
  • contradictory,
  • unappealing,
  • poorly,
  • head over heels,
  • hybridization,
  • competitor,
  • nonvoluntary,
  • hypersensitised,
  • unruly,
  • neglectful,
  • contrarious,
  • crossover,
  • repulsive,
  • diametrical,
  • depressing,
  • abominable,
  • under the weather,
  • reciprocally,
  • tolerant,
  • tardily,
  • binding,
  • hybrid,
  • game,
  • sort of,
  • slackness,
  • peaked,
  • instead,
  • sluggish,
  • justificatory,
  • stubborn,
  • supersensitised,
  • justificative,
  • untempting,
  • indorse,
  • repellent,
  • hypersensitive,
  • grouchy,
  • easy,
  • trailer,
  • boring,
  • rejoinder,
  • queer,
  • touch,
  • inverse,
  • quagmire,
  • retort,
  • upwind,
  • slowly,
  • execrable,
  • baffle,
  • thwartwise,
  • transverse,
  • riposte,
  • slow down,
  • feebleminded,
  • forestall,
  • grumpy,
  • unsympathetic,
  • dumb,
  • rachis,
  • unfitting,
  • carrefour,
  • slack water,
  • plunk for,
  • vertebral column,
  • opposite word,
  • foe,
  • dilatory,
  • plump for,
  • ailing,
  • diffident,
  • spinal column,
  • aside,
  • paired,
  • veneer,
  • uncontrollable,
  • slack off,
  • self-contradictory,
  • disgustful,
  • challenger,
  • spine,
  • furnace lining,
  • slacken,
  • behind,
  • die away,
  • dissident,
  • wicked,
  • untoward,
  • unsure,
  • face to face,
  • falling off,
  • constrained,
  • kind of,
  • the other way around,
  • abate,
  • lining,
  • slow-witted,
  • fractious,
  • depraved,
  • rebellious,
  • resistive,
  • hinder,
  • wavy-grained,
  • cover,
  • war-ridden,
  • scotch,
  • aslant,
  • unreconcilable,
  • derelict,
  • crossroad,
  • obtuse,
  • cut across,
  • crossbreed,
  • stake,
  • jumbled,
  • opponent,
  • contraclockwise,
  • hybridize,
  • match,
  • out or keeping,
  • slack up,
  • repugnant,
  • foul,
  • preferably,
  • seedy,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • loth,
  • ill-affected,
  • sickly,
  • reprobate,
  • endorse,
  • half-witted,
  • decelerate,
  • skanky,
  • comeback,
  • hybridise,
  • dense,
  • interbreed,
  • contender,
  • slow up,
  • crossway,
  • interbreeding,
  • bet on,
  • hind,
  • supersensitized,
  • niggardly,
  • militant,
  • buffet,
  • yucky,
  • hypersensitized.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • Contrariously,
  • counter,
  • against the wind,
  • upside down,
  • at war with,
  • uninviting,
  • Contra,
  • in reverse,
  • rearward,
  • perverse,
  • at issue,
  • rearwards,
  • cross-grained,
  • on the contrary,
  • unpleasant,
  • arsy-varsy,
  • rather,
  • intolerable,
  • contrarily,
  • up in arms,
  • cross,
  • backwards,
  • oppositional,
  • anticlockwise,
  • to the contrary,
  • against one's will,
  • per contra,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • Arear,
  • unlikable,
  • in hostile array,
  • displeasing,
  • astern,
  • at war,
  • widdershins,
  • away,
  • ass-backwards,
  • unlovable,
  • contrariwise,
  • involuntarily,
  • eyeball-to-eyeball,
  • inversely,
  • uncongenial,
  • in flat opposition,
  • distasteful,
  • back,
  • at daggers drawn,
  • odious,
  • conversely,
  • by contraries,
  • vice versa,
  • against the tide,
  • athwart,
  • oppositely,
  • at daggers,
  • otherwise,
  • at variance,
  • abhorrent,
  • Fro,
  • unwillingly,
  • retrad,
  • backward,
  • dislikable.

Antonyms for Against the grain:

• adj.

  • opposed/opposing
    Aiding, compatible, helping, similar, Assisting.
  • unwilling
    ready, eager, enthusiastic, prepared, willing.