Syn. — To combat; withstand; contradict; deny; gainsay; oppugn; contravene; check; obstruct.
Oppose
(Op*pose") v. i.
1. To be set opposite. Shak.
2. To act adversely or in opposition; — with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act. [Obs.]
Shak.
3. To make objection or opposition in controversy.
Opposeless
(Op*pose"less), a. Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. [Obs.] "Your great opposeless
wills." Shak.
Opposer
(Op*pos"er) n. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
Opposite
(Op"po*site) a. [F., fr. L. oppositus, p. p. of opponere. See Opponent.]
1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; — often with to; as, a house
opposite to the Exchange.
2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
extreme.
3. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in
an epic poem.
Dryden.
Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
Locke. 4. (Bot.) (a) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two
leaves at the same node. (b) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands
before a petal.
Opposite
(Op"po*site), n.
1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. [Obs.]
The opposites of this day's strife.
Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.
The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other.
Landor. Oppositely
(Op"po*site*ly), adv. In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
Winds from all quarters oppositely blow.
May. Oppositeness
(Op"po*site*ness), n. The quality or state of being opposite.
Oppositifolious
(Op*pos`i*ti*fo"li*ous) a. [See Opposite, Folious.] (Bot.) Placed at the same node
with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
Opposition
(Op`po*si"tion) n. [F., fr. L. oppositio. See Opposite.]
