oppositional

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The fact that producer, consumer and distributor interests are not aligned doesn't mean they're oppositional.

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Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oppositional.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

Example sentences

The fact that producer, consumer and distributor interests are not aligned doesn't mean they're oppositional.

That's a useful strategy with accidents and friendly groups, but not with actively aggressive oppositional destructive groups.

Hopefully the Pirateparty will manage to pull itself together and be a good oppositional force in parliament one day.

Summing up the research, yes, it's good to be supportive rather than oppositional to children developing their special talents in their youth.

They created an oppositional dynamic all by themselves, and from there it escalated.

I believe that the illusion of an independent and oppositional media plays a large part in this.

The alternatives should always number more than one, because single-alternative arguments are recipes for false dichotomies and oppositional dynamics, neither of which are useful.

It is really fascinating to see the oppositional reactions to this idea.

Echo of Moscow could be the last - and might be closed not because it's oppositional but just because it's more balanced than government-influenced media.

Comparing Facebook employees to nobility is both ludicrious and oppositional.

Strategically it makes much more sense for Iran to be aligned with Russia and China right now, which puts it into an oppositional relationship with the US.

How do we tell which oppositional arguments are legal and which aren't?

Quote examples

He called Moolah.io's oppositional filing "white knighting the situation." Zing!

Given that a number of the typical "asshole" traits fall under various psychiatric diagnoses like Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Histrionic Personality Disorder, I'm kind of surprised that we don't see more lawsuits over firing people like that.

"Building it" can be hard for people, depending on their background and what "it" is-- and I don't think having a sarcastic oppositional stance is going to encourage or help anyone.

I'm probably not even qualified to put these questions out there, because I have so little intelligence of AI, but the patterns in human thought that strike at me over and over in life is that a "yin/yang" of opposing perception (and resulting in oppositional thinking) almost always occurs in naturally intelligent beings.