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Meaning of "oppositive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPPOSITIVE

oppositive  [əˈpɒzɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPPOSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oppositive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OPPOSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of oppositive in the English dictionary

The definition of oppositive in the dictionary is expressing the opposite.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OPPOSITIVE


acquisitive
əˈkwɪzɪtɪv
appositive
əˈpɒzɪtɪv
compositive
kəmˈpɒzɪtɪv
contrapositive
ˌkɒntrəˈpɒzɪtɪv
depositive
dɪˈpɒzɪtɪv
diapositive
ˌdaɪəˈpɒzɪtɪv
dispositive
dɪsˈpɒzɪtɪv
electropositive
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈpɒzɪtɪv
expositive
ɪksˈpɒzɪtɪv
HIV-positive
ˌeɪtʃaɪviːˈpɒzɪtɪv
inquisitive
ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪv
photopositive
ˌfəʊtəʊˈpɒzɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
postpositive
pəʊstˈpɒzɪtɪv
prepositive
priːˈpɒzɪtɪv
Rh-positive
ˌɑːrˌeɪtʃˈpɒzɪtɪv
seropositive
ˌsɪərəʊˈpɔzɪtɪv
suppositive
səˈpɒzɪtɪv
transpositional
trænsˈpɒzɪtɪv
transpositive
trænsˈpɒzɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPPOSITIVE

opposed
opposed-cylinder
opposeless
opposer
opposing
opposingly
opposite
opposite number
opposite prompt
opposite sex
opposite to
oppositely
oppositeness
opposition
Opposition benches
opposition hold
oppositional
oppositionist
oppositionless
oppress

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPPOSITIVE

active
additive
aperitive
capacitive
case-sensitive
cognitive
competitive
definitive
false positive
fugitive
insensitive
intransitive
intuitive
nutritive
primitive
prohibitive
punitive
repetitive
sensitive
time-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of oppositive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oppositive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPPOSITIVE

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The translations of oppositive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oppositive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

oppositive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

opositiva
570 millions of speakers

English

oppositive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oppositive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

oppositive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

oppositive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

opositiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oppositive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oppositif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bertentangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

oppositive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

oppositive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oppositive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oposisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oppositive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oppositive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परस्परविरोधी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oppositive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oppositivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oppositive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

oppositive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oppositive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

oppositive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oppositive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oppositive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppositive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oppositive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPPOSITIVE»

The term «oppositive» is used very little and occupies the 176.177 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPPOSITIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oppositive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oppositive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oppositive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPPOSITIVE»

Discover the use of oppositive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oppositive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a Philosophical ...
Inherent oppositive dimensions are extracted directly from the content of the opposite lexemes. The meanings of shout and murmur, for instance, are differentiated through an inherent oppositive dimension, which focuses on an inner ...
Michele Prandi, 2004
2
Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: ...
Here the decisive element is the origin of the contrast between the SoAs: it can lie in the simple semantic opposition of two parallel events (Haspelmath to appear: oppositive contrast, Luraghi 1990: weak adversativity, see (6)), in substituting ...
Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma, 2007
3
Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical ...
is direct oppositive and presents the terms it associates as strongly incompatible. (c) Scalar opposition. Some indirect oppositive PCs14 allow for restriction moves on a scale, in the style of (22). (22) John is intelligent, but he is not a genius.
P. Saint-Dizier, 1999
4
Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond
The fact that oppositive and corrective contrast are more easily inferable than counterexpectative contrast has been already widely argued in chapter 4. Likewise, the fact that choice-aimed alternative is more easily inferable than simple ...
Caterina Mauri, 2008
5
Factors Affecting Goodness of Fit of the Quasi-Simplex, ...
Factors Affecting Goodness of Fit of the Quasi-Simplex, Linear Growth Curve, and Latent Difference Score Models to Oppositive Data Structures: A Simulation Study By GARYDSTOCKDALE B.A. (Ball State University) 1995 M.A. (Ball State ...
Gary D. Stockdale, 2007
6
The Prevenient Piety of Samuel Wesley, Sr
... not out of fear, but stemming from joyful, filial obedience which for Wesley was a person's highest moral obligation. The Oppositive Nature of Pietism Stoeffler understood the oppositive nature of Pietism as acting “against a dominant pattern ?
Arthur Alan Torpy, 2009
7
What More in/for Science Education: An Ethnomethodological ...
An Ethnomethodological Perspective Wolff-Michael Roth. there is a further statement that acknowledges the thought that has gone into the work before the locution stops with what normally functions as a oppositive conjunctive ('but'), but here ...
Wolff-Michael Roth, 2013
8
Markedness in synchrony and diachrony
This means that a voiceless implementation in that position has no sign value, whereas a voiceless implementation in the remaining positions does have a sign value, with its oppositive (and hence also negative) meaning. Trubetzkoy used the ...
Mouton De Gruyter, 1989
9
The second German book, by T.K. Arnold and J.W. Frädersdorff
They did not venture to proceed, but came back (oppositive by negation). He is a good man, but he is unpolished (oppositive by restriction). He is a good man, but (or, yet) people do not trust him (oppositive by negation of inference [= therefore ...
Thomas Kerchever Arnold, J Wilhelm Fraedersdorff, 1854
10
Intonation, Accent, and Rhythm: Studies in Discourse Phonology
Focussing by accent may relate not only to the 'oppositive' semantic features of the unit accented, i.e. those defined by possible opposition to other units of their category19, but also to the 'relational' ones, those defined by the syntagmatic ...
Dafydd Gibbon, Helmut Richter, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPPOSITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oppositive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
US, Saudi Arabia play down rift
... so the challenge is how do we collectively in the GCC and the US coordinate our efforts tin order to counter these oppositive moves.". «ABS CBN News, May 15»
2
3-D fake rhino horn is its own dilemma
But South African and international experts worry that it might have the oppositive effect and deepen the crisis. Pembient plans to unveil the ... «Times LIVE, May 15»
3
Heaven club in Newmarket wins battle to renew licence
Owners of Heaven, which is oppositive the Memorial Hall on the High Street, went to Forest Heath District Council on Monday evening to renew ... «Cambridge News, Jan 15»
4
Are Umno leaders fit to wear the badge of ketuanan?
... to Aliran, is a former Perak state assembly member for Pasir Pinji. He served as political secretary to the late oppositive stalwart P Patto. «Aliran Monthly, Jan 15»
5
Xmas, discmas
WHATEVER, CAROL | Gay and gay-popular artists like Dave Koz, above, Johnny Mathis, opposite top, and Idina Menzel, oppositive bottom get ... «Dallas Voice, Dec 14»
6
Boxed blisters showcase high-quality toothbrushes
... creates a third dimension on both sides, just at the edges (see the photo of the back of the blister on the oppositive page at the bottom left). «Packaging Digest, Dec 14»
7
Flames highest-ever draft pick makes debut tonight
“What's great about those two guys,” said Hartley, “is that they'll be two centremen with totally oppositive styles. That's great news for us and ... «Calgary Herald, Sep 14»
8
Councillor 'confusing' over Kings Forest dog ban
Cr Carolyn Byrne has copped flak over her individual submission on Kings Forest which takes the oppositive view of Tweed Shire Council ... «Echonetdaily, Mar 14»
9
Knights stay hot in cold
Jayson Pemberton and Andres Oselio started the inning with base hits and Patrick Whalen's oppositive-field double drove home Pemberton to ... «Beloit Daily News, Apr 13»
10
Will Prop 8 End Not With a Bang but a Legal Whimper?
... will be used to marry any other thing than your same sex partner or your oppositive sex partner. What makes you think this is a slippery slope. «TIME, Mar 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Oppositive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oppositive>. May 2024 ».
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