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say it: uh-POHZD
opposed is an adjective meaning "being in opposition or having an opponent". It carries one recorded sense.
being in opposition or having an opponent
“two bitterly opposed schools of thought”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for opposed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.