opportunist

1. 1.

   taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

   Synonymsopportunistictimeserving

   Similarexpedient

Other forms of opportunist

plural

opportunists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about opportunist

What does opportunist mean?

opportunist means "a person who places expediency above principle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opportunist?

opportunist has 4 syllables: op-por-tu-nist. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˌɑpɚˈtunɪst/.

What is another word for opportunist?

Close synonyms include self-seeker, opportunistic, timeserving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is opportunist a common word?

opportunist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.