oppositional meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

oppositional

adj

Etymology From opposition + -al.

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

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.2007 March 10, Steven Lee Myers, “Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin”, in New York Times:

Derived terms: counteroppositional, nonoppositional, oppositional defiant disorder, oppositionalism, oppositionality, oppositionally