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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
opposed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
adamantly opposed to
▪ Britain is adamantly opposed to the new directive.
bitterly opposed
▪ The march was bitterly opposed by local residents.
implacably opposed to
▪ He remained implacably opposed to Stalin’s regime.
strongly opposed to
▪ I’m strongly opposed to capital punishment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
diametrically
▪ Broadly, these tensions result from two diametrically opposed approaches to social research - positivism and naturalism.
▪ A more fundamental problem is that the agency is being asked by Congress to do two diametrically opposed things.
▪ As to the latter, the Jenkins and Diamond Reports took diametrically opposed positions.
▪ But this misses the real distinction between diametrically opposed beliefs based on entirely different conceptions of the satisfaction of human needs.
▪ It also became clear that diametrically opposed opinions of and attitudes towards integration could quite easily be found within a local authority.
▪ Often compromise is not possible: a choice has to be made between diametrically opposed policies.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
diametrically opposed/opposite
▪ The women hold diametrically opposed views on abortion.
▪ A more recent image is diametrically opposed to this and emphasizes the affluence of later life.
▪ Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.
▪ In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.
▪ It is clear that Guthrie and Linforth follow diametrically opposed methods and reach contradictory conclusions about the nature and existence of Orphism.
▪ Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.
▪ The assumptions in the two systems are almost diametrically opposed.
▪ Therefore, introspection and self-observation are diametrically opposed in action and effect, and should never be confused one with another.
▪ To begin with, he was diametrically opposed to the economic ideas advocated by Adam Smith.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A more fundamental problem is that the agency is being asked by Congress to do two diametrically opposed things.
▪ As to the latter, the Jenkins and Diamond Reports took diametrically opposed positions.
▪ Broadly, these tensions result from two diametrically opposed approaches to social research - positivism and naturalism.
▪ But what are in one sense dramatically opposed kinds of relationship are in another simply alternative celebrations of masculinity.
▪ Knowledge and experience are not opposed but related, and there is a profound spiritual logic in the relationship.
▪ The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests.
▪ They aim to make it possible for those opposed to remain in the Church and be able to operate.
▪ They also say that they have discovered that this tends to produce two dramatically opposed views.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
opposed

opposed \opposed\ ([o^]p*p[=o]zd"), opposing \opposing\ ([o^]p*p[=o]"z[i^]ng),adj.

  1. characterized by active opposition; as, two bitterly opposing schools of thought.

    Syn: antagonistic, antipathetic, antipathetical, opponent.

  2. acting in opposition to; as, the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

Wiktionary
opposed
  1. 1 Acting in opposition; opposing. 2 Being, of having an opponent; not unopposed. v

  2. (en-past of: oppose)

WordNet
opposed
  1. adj. in opposition to (a policy or attitude etc.); "an opposing vote" [syn: opposing]

  2. being in opposition or having an opponent; "two bitterly opposed schools of thought" [ant: unopposed]

Usage examples of "opposed".

The patriotic Cyprian, who ruled with the most absolute sway the church of Carthage and the provincial synods, opposed with resolution and success the ambition of the Roman pontiff, artfully connected his own cause with that of the eastern bishops, and, like Hannibal, sought out new allies in the heart of Asia.

But the progress of their negotiation was opposed and defeated by the hostile arts of Antoninus, a Roman subject of Syria, who had fled from oppression, and was admitted into the councils of Sapor, and even to the royal table, where, according to the custom of the Persians, the most important business was frequently discussed.

The streams that issue from the head of the Hadriatic Gulf, swelled by the melting of the winter snows, opposed an unexpected obstacle to the arms of Maximin.

Even his attempt to restore the integrity of the coin was opposed by a formidable insurrection.

The description of the infernal regions had been abandoned to the fancy of painters and of poets, who peopled them with so many phantoms and monsters, who dispensed their rewards and punishments with so little equity, that a solemn truth, the most congenial to the human heart, was opposed and disgraced by the absurd mixture of the wildest fictions.

The unfortunate Licinius was the last rival who opposed the greatness, and the last captive who adorned the triumph, of Constantine.

The basis of the triangle is opposed to the west, and terminates the continent of Europe.

The success of Constantine against Maxentius and Licinius removed the two formidable competitors who still opposed the triumph of the second David, and his cause might seem to claim the peculiar interposition of Providence.

The bishops who had opposed, were required to subscribe, the sentence, and to unite in religious communion with the suspected leaders of the adverse party.

The cruel and arbitrary disposition of Constantius, which did not always require the provocations of guilt and resistance, was justly exasperated by the tumults of his capital, and the criminal behavior of a faction, which opposed the authority and religion of their sovereign.

The successful valor of Julian had triumphed over all the obstacles that opposed his march to the gates of Ctesiphon.

The progress of the work, which was sometimes opposed by modest representations, and sometimes by hostile attempts, secured the tranquillity of Gaul during the nine subsequent years of the administration of Valentinian.

Without weighing the natural and artificial obstacles that opposed his efforts, the emperor of the East immediately attacked the fortifications of his rivals, assigned the post of honorable danger to the Goths, and cherished a secret wish, that the bloody conflict might diminish the pride and numbers of the conquerors.

The subjects of Rome, who still reverenced the persons, or rather the names, of their sovereigns, beheld, with equal abhorrence, the rebels who opposed, and the ministers who abused, the authority of the throne.

This rash engagement opposed an insuperable bar to all future negotiation.