oppositional
English edit
Etymology edit
opposition + -al
Adjective edit
oppositional (comparative more oppositional, superlative most oppositional)
- Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.
- 2007 March 10, Steven Lee Myers, “Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin”, in New York Times[1]:
- And he has brought to oppositional politics the same energy and aggression that characterized his chess, attacking Mr. Putin and the Kremlin — or the regime, as he repeatedly calls it — with language rarely spoken so bluntly in Russia.