| Main Entry: | contestant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | competitor |
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adversary, antagonist, aspirant, battler, candidate, challenger, combatant, contender, contester, dark horse, disputant, entrant, favorite, hopeful, member, participant, player, rival, scrapper, team member, warrior |
| Main Entry: | enemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone hated or competed against |
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adversary, agent, antagonist, archenemy, asperser, assailant, assassin, attacker, backbiter, bad person, bandit, betrayer, calumniator, competitor, contender, criminal, defamer, defiler, detractor, disputant, emulator, falsifier, fifth column, foe, guerrilla, informer, inquisitor, invader, murderer, opponent, opposition, other side, prosecutor, rebel, revolutionary, rival, saboteur, seditionist, slanderer, spy, terrorist, traducer, traitor, vilifier, villain |
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aide, ally, assistant, confidante, friend, helper |
| Main Entry: | fighter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in hostile encounter |
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GI, aggressor, antagonist, assailant, battler, belligerent, boxer, brawler, bruiser, bully, champion, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, gladiator, heavy*, jouster, mercenary, militant, opponent, person-at-arms, pugilist, punching bag, rival, scrapper, serviceperson, slugger, soldier, tanker, warlord, warrior, wildcat |
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peacemaker |
| Main Entry: | opponent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person with whom one competes |
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adversary, antagonist, anti*, aspirant, assailant, bandit*, bidder, candidate, challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse, disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposer, opposition, oppugnant, player, rival |
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ally, associate, colleague, helper |
| Main Entry: | opposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, people competing |
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adversary, antagonist, disputant, enemy, foe, iconoclast, opponent, other side, rebel, rival |
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team, teammates |
| Main Entry: | opposer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opponent |
Synonyms: |
adversary, antagonist, anti*, aspirant, assailant, bandit*, bidder, candidate, challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse, disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposition, oppositionist, oppugnant, player, resister, rival |
| Main Entry: | oppositionist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opponent |
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adversary, antagonist, anti*, aspirant, assailant, bandit*, bidder, candidate, challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse, disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposer, opposition, oppugnant, player, resister, rival |
| Main Entry: | resister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opponent |
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adversary, antagonist, anti*, aspirant, assailant, bandit*, bidder, candidate, challenger, competitor, con, contestant, counteragent, dark horse, disputant, dissentient, enemy, entrant, foe, litigant, match, opposer, opposition, oppositionist, oppugnant, player, rival |
| Concept: | Opposition. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy, oppugnation; impugnation; contrariety; contravention; counteraction; counterplot., crossfire, undercurrent, headwind., clashing, collision, conflict., competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race., absence of aid; resistance; restraint; hindrance.
-verbs
oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand (resist); control (restrain); hinder; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one's voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face., be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork, countermine; thwart, overthwart., stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head against; grapple with; kick against the pricks (resist); contend; do battle with (warfare), do battle against., contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; come in conflict with., emulate (compete); rival, spoil one's trade.
-adjectives
opposing, opposed; adverse, antagonistic; contrary; at variance; at issue, at war with., unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious., in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn; up in arms; resistant., competitive, emulous.
-adverbs
against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes., against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the wind in one's teeth., in spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth., though; even; quand meme; per contra.
-phrases
nitor in adversum.
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cooperation |
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| Concept: | Opponent. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-nouns
opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party, opposition; enemy; assailant., oppositionist, obstructive; brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant; filibuster [U.S.], obstructionist., malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist., rival, competitor.
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auxiliary |
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