oppose

Other forms of oppose

past tense

opposed·

present participle

opposing·

third person

opposes·

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 oppose

What does oppose mean?

oppose means "be against; express opposition to". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oppose?

oppose has 2 syllables: op-pose. The stress falls on "pose". In IPA it is /əˈpoʊz/.

What is another word for oppose?

Close synonyms include fight, fight back, fight down, defend, counterbalance. 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 oppose a common word?

oppose is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with oppose?

13 words rhyme with oppose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.