opposing

opposing

modif.

1. In the act of opposition

   conflicting, clashing, combating, fending, objecting, disagreeing, exposing, disputing, denying, protesting, controverting, crossing, gainsaying, battling, confronting, reversing, neutralizing, facing, stemming, meeting, breasting, withstanding, repelling, defending, resisting, counteracting, outflanking, in defiance of, at variance, at cross-purposes, in disagreement with, in opposition to, at loggerheads*, at odds*, on the outs*, with daggers drawn*.

   Antonyms helping*, agreeing, defending.

2. Belonging to the opposition or constituting the opposition

   inimical, antonymous, hostile, adverse, antithetical, antithetic, obstructive, recalcitrant, antagonistic, conflicting, calumniating, competitive, rival, aspiring, contesting, defensive, resistive, resistant, challenging, disputative, litigative, defying, unfavorable, sinister, contradictory; see also unfriendly.

   Antonyms friendly*, favorable*, allied. *

3. Situated opposite

   contrary, facing, fronting; see opposite 3.

opposing

n.