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objecting
adjective as in disappointed
Strong matches
adjective as in disinclined
adjective as in noncompliant
adjective as in opposed
Strong matches
adjective as in opposed/opposing
Weak matches
- against the grain
- allergic
- anti
- antipathetic
- antithetical
- antonymous
- at cross-purposes
- at odds
- averse
- battling
- clashing
- combating
- conflicting
- confronting
- contrary
- controverting
- counter
- crossing
- defending
- defensive
- denying
- disagreeing
- disputed
- disputing
- dissentient
- enemy
- exposing
- facing
- gainsaying
- hostile
- in opposition
- incompatible
- inimical
- irreconcilable
- obstructive
- opposite
- protesting
- repelling
- restrictive
- rival
- up against
- warring
adjective as in oppositional
Weak matches
- adversarial
- adverse
- against the grain
- allergic
- antagonistic
- anti
- antipathetic
- antithetical
- antonymous
- at cross-purposes
- at odds
- averse
- battling
- clashing
- combating
- conflicting
- confronting
- contrary
- controverting
- counter
- crossing
- defending
- defensive
- denying
- disagreeing
- disputed
- disputing
- dissentient
- enemy
- exposing
- facing
- gainsaying
- hostile
- in opposition
- incompatible
- inimical
- irreconcilable
- obstructive
- opposed
- opposite
- protesting
- repelling
- restrictive
- rival
- up against
- warring
Example Sentences
And now the reason Congress is objecting to this is that it wants to keep these sanctions.
“I think if you get combative and overly objecting, people are going to begin to get suspicious,” Edwards told me.
A growing chorus of religious scholars is objecting to their declaration of a caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
My friends instantly, abundantly, responded, some agreeing with the premise, others either objecting or not fully absorbing it.
Taranto called me "silly" for objecting to this way of looking at things.
Throwing up the window, he saw his young son attempting to mount the groom's pony: the latter objecting.
He knew they were great friends, and he never had dreamed of objecting till now that he was himself out of favor.
Realizing the futility of objecting, Peter Gross and Paddy permitted themselves to be locked in the place once more.
They desired to be understood, however, as not objecting to all the new Directors.
Refusing to go in the first place, and now objecting to coming home.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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