opposition

Other forms of opposition

plural

oppositions·

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 opposition

What does opposition mean?

opposition means "the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in opposition?

opposition has 4 syllables: op-po-sit-ion. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˌɑpəˈzɪʃən/.

What is another word for opposition?

Close synonyms include resistance, oppositeness, confrontation, opponent, opposite. 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 opposition a common word?

opposition is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 opposition?

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