Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Opposing; contrasting or setting in opposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being put in opposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Expressing
contrariety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressing antithesis or opposition
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Examples
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Not surprisingly, it appears as if this legislation is doing the oppositive of what supporters said it would do.
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According to Stevenson -- I do not say he is right, but I do quote his words as worth attention -- we are not damned so much for yielding to evil, as for not getting into our life its oppositive virtue; some content vital enough to cast out the evil, and to keep it out.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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Neither was the duty so unpleasant to Thomas's oppositive nature, as it would have been to a man of easier temperament.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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This would be the exact oppositive of the present system.
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Erick Erickson, the editor of redstate.com. will begin working at CNN as a political commentaor oppositive John King on John King USA.
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Erick Erickson, the editor of redstate.com. will begin working at CNN as a political commentaor oppositive John King on John King USA.
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Not really wanna have a BF but I enjoy some company of the oppositive sex.
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Not to brother printer p touch a nutbrown reallotment for an thermoplastic shiism and the pindolol of the dolt oppositive at the exarchate.
Rational Review 2009
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