Synonyms for Opposing:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • catastrophic,
  • inauspicious,
  • calamitous,
  • unfavorable,
  • grievous,
  • down on,
  • unfortunate,
  • untoward,
  • tragic,
  • unpropitious,
  • difficult,
  • hard,
  • troublesome,
  • have no use for,
  • unlucky,
  • woeful,
  • burdensome,
  • unfriendly,
  • detrimental,
  • down side,
  • distressful,
  • allergic to,
  • antipathetic,
  • perilous,
  • disastrous,
  • miserable,
  • most opposite.
  •antipodean (adjective)
  • in-verse,
  • in verse,
  • more obverse,
  • most obverse.
  •antonymic (adjective)
  • most currish.
  •at variance (adjective)
  • contending.
  •competitive (adjective)
  • killer,
  • more streetwise,
  • dog eat dog,
  • most streetwise,
  • more competing,
  • most killer,
  • more killer,
  • most vying,
  • most competing,
  • more vying,
  • killer instinct.
  •conflicting (adjective)
  • Inconsonant,
  • Contrariant,
  • at odds with,
  • unmixable,
  • disconsonant.
  •confronting (adjective)
  • more meeting,
  • most meeting,
  • more encountering,
  • face face,
  • most encountering.
  •contradictory (adjective)
  • conest,
  • most against,
  • anti-thetical,
  • more reverse,
  • more against,
  • most anti,
  • most reverse,
  • anti thetical,
  • more anti,
  • most nullifying,
  • re-verse,
  • counter-active,
  • more negating,
  • coner,
  • re verse,
  • co-nest,
  • more antithetic,
  • co nest,
  • more nullifying,
  • counter active,
  • most antithetic,
  • anti-thetic,
  • most agin,
  • anti thetic,
  • most negating,
  • more agin.
  •counteractive (adjective)
  • defiant,
  • challenging,
  • counteractive.
  •defensive (adjective)
  • Interrupting,
  • preservative,
  • coping with,
  • in opposition.
  •negative (adjective)
  • recusant,
  • dissentient,
  • Privative,
  • naysaying,
  • unaffirmative,
  • contrary,
  • Refusing,
  • unenthusiastic.
  •opposed (adjective)
  • at cross-purposes,
  • up against,
  • restrictive.
  •recalcitrant (adjective)
  • in subordinate,
  • more insubmissive,
  • un-governable,
  • in submissive,
  • un-disciplined,
  • un manageable,
  • in tractable,
  • in-subordinate,
  • most undisciplinable,
  • un-disciplinable,
  • un disciplinable,
  • in-tractable,
  • most insubmissive,
  • more undisciplinable,
  • un disciplined,
  • in-submissive,
  • un-manageable.
  •resistant (adjective)
  • dis-obedient,
  • dis obedient,
  • un yielding,
  • un-yielding.

• n.

  •
  • meeting,
  • (dead) set against something,
  • helping.
  •
  • conversely,
  • inimical,
  • vice versa,
  • sinister,
  • favorable,
  • resistive,
  • friendly,
  • to the contrary,
  • paradoxical,
  • otherwise,
  • aspiring.
  •
  • support.
  •
  • converse,
  • reverse.
  •hostile (noun)
  • hostile.

• v.

  •contending (verb)
  • bickering,
  • protesting,
  • Vying,
  • antagonizing,
  • hassling,
  • Encountering,
  • brawling,
  • contrasting,
  • wrangling,
  • Quarreling,
  • wrestling,
  • dissenting,
  • struggling,
  • standing,
  • Disputing,
  • clashing,
  • Withstanding.
  •counteracting (verb)
  • tampering,
  • Neutralizing,
  • offsetting.
  •defending (verb)
  • shielding,
  • screening,
  • defending,
  • Policing,
  • upholding,
  • Sheltering,
  • answering,
  • Sustaining,
  • buffering,
  • counterattacking,
  • Rebutting,
  • Replying,
  • protecting,
  • supporting,
  • barring,
  • backfiring,
  • saving,
  • safeguarding,
  • Resisting,
  • Securing,
  • arguing,
  • returning,
  • Fending,
  • Barricading,
  • Retorting,
  • averting,
  • Responding,
  • countering,
  • covering,
  • guarding,
  • Warding.
  •disagreeing (verb)
  • Defying,
  • Objecting,
  • Repudiating,
  • Rejecting,
  • complaining,
  • disagreeing,
  • Demurring,
  • differing,
  • colliding.
  •disproving (verb)
  • Belying,
  • Refuting,
  • Parrying,
  • Subverting,
  • Denying,
  • Overturning,
  • Contravening,
  • Disproving,
  • negating,
  • Confuting.
  •hindering (verb)
  • thwarting,
  • restricting,
  • Delaying,
  • Handicapping,
  • Impairing,
  • catching,
  • Entrapping,
  • bottlenecking,
  • Damming,
  • fettering,
  • choking,
  • constraining,
  • blocking,
  • Snarling,
  • Miring,
  • Clogging,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Plugging,
  • jamming,
  • constipating,
  • Restraining,
  • baffling,
  • Fouling,
  • curbing,
  • Snagging,
  • Detaining,
  • Hamstringing,
  • dragging,
  • Complicating,
  • Staying,
  • Bunging,
  • congesting,
  • Crimping,
  • Burdening,
  • Entangling,
  • Hampering,
  • braking,
  • Encumbering,
  • stopping,
  • Cramping,
  • Deterring,
  • frustrating,
  • Tangling,
  • crippling.
  •opposing (verb)
  • repelling,
  • Obstructing,
  • Intercepting,
  • Checking,
  • Suppressing,
  • Contradicting,
  • Rebuffing,
  • fighting,
  • meddling,
  • repressing,
  • crossing,
  • Repulsing,
  • hindering,
  • impeding,
  • inhibiting,
  • Counteracting,
  • Oppressing,
  • interfering.
  •resisting (verb)
  • standing fast,
  • standing firm,
  • Snubbing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • antipodean,
  • diametric,
  • antonymic,
  • adversarial,
  • antonymous,
  • unsympathetic,
  • bipolar,
  • oppositional,
  • repugnant,
  • rebellious,
  • antipodal.
  •
  • antithetical,
  • antagonistic,
  • diametrical,
  • repulsive.
  •
  • polar.
  •
  • counter.
  •dissident
  • factious.
  •Other relevant words:
  • displeased,
  • oppositive,
  • counter-culture,
  • Confrontment,
  • ironically,
  • standing against,
  • Abnegative,
  • at variance with,
  • Negatory,
  • twinning,
  • harsh,
  • counteraction,
  • contradict,
  • adversative,
  • comparative linguistics,
  • campaigning,
  • comparison,
  • varied,
  • disparaging,
  • Traversing,
  • cranky,
  • refutation,
  • confront,
  • discordant,
  • polarization,
  • distinction,
  • Remonstrating,
  • discrepant,
  • contrariety,
  • comparing,
  • schismatical,
  • equating,
  • in conflict,
  • inconsistent,
  • comparative degree,
  • friction,
  • confrontation,
  • negate,
  • emotionlessly,
  • rebut,
  • pitting,
  • revolutionary,
  • opposure,
  • mixed,
  • Crusading,
  • turned-off,
  • argue,
  • contrast,
  • animosity,
  • counterpoised,
  • antithesis,
  • rejection,
  • matching,
  • refractory,
  • foe,
  • Disallowing,
  • low,
  • refusal,
  • reactionary,
  • oppose,
  • Anteposition,
  • parallelism,
  • take exception,
  • adversary,
  • discontented,
  • cross,
  • mating,
  • Maintaining,
  • Gibing,
  • competing,
  • alien,
  • at war with,
  • disaffirming,
  • Rivalling,
  • contradiction,
  • diverse,
  • Contradistinct,
  • dissident,
  • Championing,
  • opposition,
  • at cross purposes,
  • obstacle,
  • antiestablishment,
  • counterworking,
  • perverse,
  • Gainsaying,
  • objection,
  • resist,
  • Disclaiming,
  • Oppugnant,
  • ascertain,
  • Scaring,
  • Polaric,
  • Blackballing,
  • crosscurrent,
  • noncooperative,
  • fractious,
  • enemy,
  • Preventing,
  • fight against,
  • Violating,
  • antagonism,
  • Jibing,
  • Renitent,
  • laconically,
  • alienated,
  • incongruous,
  • dissent,
  • controvert,
  • inverse,
  • corresponding,
  • challenge,
  • relation,
  • offensively,
  • Contraposition,
  • analogy,
  • rebelling,
  • critically,
  • nonconformist,
  • disapproving,
  • comparative method,
  • Deprecatingly,
  • crotchety,
  • antagonize,
  • pushing,
  • pressing,
  • confused,
  • Disavowing,
  • critical,
  • obstinate,
  • simile,
  • distinctiveness,
  • disparagingly,
  • proportion,
  • similitude,
  • denial,
  • opponent,
  • resistance,
  • exception,
  • traversal,
  • reciprocally,
  • inversely,
  • complaint,
  • touching,
  • Sectary,
  • immunity,
  • counterbalancing,
  • Twining,
  • agitating,
  • head wind,
  • comparative literature,
  • equalising,
  • eyeball-to-eyeball,
  • endurance,
  • adverse party,
  • Negativing,
  • Contesting,
  • renunciative,
  • obstructive,
  • Disapprobatory,
  • uncooperative,
  • hostility,
  • Oppugnation,
  • disturbing,
  • slightingly,
  • derogatory,
  • Overthwart,
  • not easy,
  • indignant,
  • Renunciatory,
  • Controverting,
  • unfavourable,
  • stoning,
  • Impugnment,
  • Compensating,
  • insultingly,
  • Abjuratory,
  • disapprovingly,
  • unhappy,
  • sectarian,
  • dryly,
  • undercurrent,
  • allegory,
  • not harmonious,
  • disowning,
  • rebuttal,
  • uncomplimentary,
  • squared off,
  • Revocatory,
  • rigorous,
  • contention,
  • dissatisfied,
  • con,
  • disenchanted,
  • wryly,
  • poor,
  • sarcastically,
  • cope,
  • Unapproving,
  • coupling,
  • contrapositive,
  • at issue,
  • nonconforming,
  • Polarized,
  • cut across,
  • Tallying,
  • Impugnation,
  • reacting,
  • polar opposition,
  • agreeing,
  • Oppugning,
  • wretched,
  • polarity,
  • condemn,
  • destructive,
  • Equalizing,
  • compare,
  • adversive,
  • hindrance,
  • disillusioned,
  • sardonically,
  • Combating,
  • disgruntled,
  • objector,
  • negation,
  • trying,
  • deprecation,
  • diametrically opposed,
  • different,
  • incompatible,
  • unappreciative,
  • deprecate,
  • Contrasted,
  • troublous,
  • Versus,
  • Bucking,
  • contrarious,
  • disproof,
  • mutually,
  • correlation,
  • antagonist,
  • disinclined,
  • at variance,
  • contend,
  • dissonant,
  • breakaway,
  • oppositely,
  • enmity,
  • Disaccordant,
  • counteractant,
  • Recanting,
  • harmful,
  • grievance,
  • impedance,
  • representing,
  • irreconcilable,
  • contravene,
  • weighing,
  • contravention,
  • disappointed,
  • condemnatory,
  • protest,
  • repudiative,
  • opposer,
  • Fronting,
  • Rivaling,
  • obverse,
  • pairing,
  • balancing,
  • countervailing,
  • divergent,
  • likening,
  • Impugning,
  • refute,
  • stressful,
  • metaphor,
  • underground,
  • muddled,
  • various,
  • Contraversion,
  • comparative anatomy,
  • marking,
  • Scarring.

Paraphrases for Opposing:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    oppose.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    earlier, oppositional, opposed, competing, hostile, diverging, antagonism, rival, differing, confrontational, adverse, adversarial, antagonist, inconsistent, different, contrary, averse.
  • Proper noun, singular
    rejects, opposed, Galleries, EXPOS, exhibits, VS, opposes, opposer, Against, Objecting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    opposer, contrary, Against.
  • Verb, past tense
    Protested, rejected, Disagreed, condemned, Resisted, Resented, contested, Objected, Combated, reacted, Against.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    imposing, Refusing, Rejecting, protesting, Resisting, Reversing, discouraging, Denouncing, Denying, antagonizing, Overthrowing, intervening, frustrating, contending, Disputing, Intercepting, questioning, seeking, Contesting, Dismissing, Violating, Addressing, Preventing, Contravening, Arising, interfering, confronting, challenging, Vetoing, overlapping, offsetting, presence, Deterring, impeding, Experiencing, invading, Hampering, countervailing, combatting, seeing, Replying, banning, Alleviating, conflicting, blocking, lending, thwarting, Encountering, pouring, Battling, feuding, answering, asking, declining, halting, tackling, clashing, Involving, pitting, lying, inhibiting, facing, Receiving, namely, targeting, emerging, warring, telling, Placing, Breaching, failing, hindering, turning, Carrying, bringing, dealing, \, putting, calling, acting, contrasting, making, competing, diverging, differing, dissenting, Against, Objecting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    conflicting, antagonistic, contradictory, contrasting, opposite, divergent, dissenting.
  • Proper noun, singular
    opposition, dissenting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    opposition, opposite, dissenting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    countering, Counteracting.

Antonyms for Opposing:

• adj.

  • at variance
    agreeable, allied.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    amicable.