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单词 oppositional
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Definition of oppositional in English:

oppositional

adjective ˌɒpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɑpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Characterized by resistance or dissent.

    an oppositional stance to capitalism
    the suppression of oppositional critical thought
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In school, Jane would bully classmates, lie, steal, and exhibit oppositional behavior in the classroom.
    • For Davies and his colleagues, nature and technology were only partly oppositional.
    • One of the principle values of modernism was its genuinely oppositional relationship to the dominant, bourgeois culture.
    • Studio films have scrapped most traces of oppositional sentiment, and reveled in general reverence for all the institutions of American capitalism.
    • 'A Man Escaped' is typical of Bresson's work in creating highly emotional effects by juxtaposing seemingly oppositional images and motifs.
    • It is likely that his oppositional defiant attitude will increase the risk, resulting in the need for secure accommodation.
    • The avant-garde is to be understood neither as simply oppositional to dominant ideological structures nor as naively collusive with them.
    • Those elements outside the effective dominant culture are described as either alternative or oppositional.
    • But at the same time it is a sure way to put off the naturally oppositional adolescent who is getting directives from numerous adults.
    • The internal coherence or unity of either gender, man or woman, requires both a stable and oppositional heterosexuality.
    1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting a group of opponents, especially in politics.
      the largest oppositional party in parliament
      Example sentencesExamples
      • About 6,000 people from trade unions, peasants movements, left-wing political parties, and autonomous extra-parliamentary oppositional movements travelled to Chiapas.
      • This is not your cue to go off on how the Democrats aren't being sufficiently oppositional.
      • As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared.
      • Young, particularly oppositional, factions, are no 'nicer' in relation to the old social chauvinist parties than a little piglet is 'nicer' than an old swine.
      • Oppositional parties and critics here have a political interest in trying to spread rumours and smears among a less-educated population.
      • A dogmatic, oppositional council, led by Hatton, took hold.
      • He described his understanding of a right-wing organization as "an open, not blindly oppositional one."
      • There was a change of government in 1989, to an alliance of oppositional groups under Vishwanath P. Singh.
      • Trotsky's arguments were defeated by non-argumentative means and he was unwilling to split the party by forming an oppositional bloc.
      • To my mind, this kind of old-school oppositional politics seems unproductive, and limited at best.

Definition of oppositional in US English:

oppositional

adjectiveˌɑpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌäpəˈziSH(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Characterized by resistance or dissent.

    an oppositional stance to capitalism
    the suppression of oppositional critical thought
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For Davies and his colleagues, nature and technology were only partly oppositional.
    • But at the same time it is a sure way to put off the naturally oppositional adolescent who is getting directives from numerous adults.
    • In school, Jane would bully classmates, lie, steal, and exhibit oppositional behavior in the classroom.
    • One of the principle values of modernism was its genuinely oppositional relationship to the dominant, bourgeois culture.
    • Those elements outside the effective dominant culture are described as either alternative or oppositional.
    • 'A Man Escaped' is typical of Bresson's work in creating highly emotional effects by juxtaposing seemingly oppositional images and motifs.
    • The internal coherence or unity of either gender, man or woman, requires both a stable and oppositional heterosexuality.
    • The avant-garde is to be understood neither as simply oppositional to dominant ideological structures nor as naively collusive with them.
    • Studio films have scrapped most traces of oppositional sentiment, and reveled in general reverence for all the institutions of American capitalism.
    • It is likely that his oppositional defiant attitude will increase the risk, resulting in the need for secure accommodation.
    1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting a group of opponents, especially in politics.
      the largest oppositional party in parliament
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A dogmatic, oppositional council, led by Hatton, took hold.
      • There was a change of government in 1989, to an alliance of oppositional groups under Vishwanath P. Singh.
      • To my mind, this kind of old-school oppositional politics seems unproductive, and limited at best.
      • About 6,000 people from trade unions, peasants movements, left-wing political parties, and autonomous extra-parliamentary oppositional movements travelled to Chiapas.
      • He described his understanding of a right-wing organization as "an open, not blindly oppositional one."
      • Young, particularly oppositional, factions, are no 'nicer' in relation to the old social chauvinist parties than a little piglet is 'nicer' than an old swine.
      • Trotsky's arguments were defeated by non-argumentative means and he was unwilling to split the party by forming an oppositional bloc.
      • Oppositional parties and critics here have a political interest in trying to spread rumours and smears among a less-educated population.
      • As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared.
      • This is not your cue to go off on how the Democrats aren't being sufficiently oppositional.
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