Antonyms for adversaryad·ver·sa·ry

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1. adversary

   An enemy in private life is one who is moved by hostile feeling with active disposition to injure; but in military language all who fight on the opposite side are called enemies or collectively "the enemy," where no personal animosity may be implied; foe, which is rather a poetical and literary word, implies intensely hostile spirit and purpose. An antagonist is one who opposes and is opposed actively and with intensity of effort; an opponent, one in whom the attitude of resistance is the more prominent; a competitor, one who seeks the same object for which another is striving; antagonists in wrestling, competitors in business, opponents in debate may contend with no personal ill will; rivals in love, ambition, etc., rarely avoid inimical feeling. Adversary was formerly much used in the general sense of antagonist or opponent, but is now less common, and largely restricted to the hostile sense; an adversary is ordinarily one who not only opposes another in fact, but does so with hostile spirit, or perhaps out of pure malignity; as, the great Adversary. Compare synonyms for AMBITION.

   Antonyms:
   abettor, accessory, accomplice, ally, friend, helper, supporter

   Synonyms:
   antagonist, competitor, enemy, foe, opponent, rival

   Preposition:
   He was the enemy of my friend in the contest.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adversary

   Antonyms:
   accessory, abettor, alder, friend, helper, assistant, ally, accomplice

   Synonyms:
   antagonist, foe, enemy, rival, assailant

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1. • Person

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resisternoun

   someone who offers opposition

   Synonyms:
   obstructionist, opposer, obstructer, obstructor, opposite, antagonist, opposition, opponent, thwarter, resister

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1. adversarynoun

   Synonyms:
   enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent

How to use adversary in a sentence?

1. Douglas London:

   Donald Trump was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give Donald Trump the information Donald Trump needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that Donald Trump wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off-the-cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent.

2. State Mike Pompeo on Monday:

   President Trump and those of us in his national security team are re-establishing deterrence – real deterrence ? against the Islamic Republic of Iran, your adversary must understand not only that you have the capacity to impose cost but that you're in fact willing to do so.

3. Peter Scheer:

   There might be circumstances in which knowing who your real adversary is or the real party of interest who is making a suit against you may alter one’s perception of the case and strategies for defense.

4. Preet Bharara:

   The idea that it is OK, separate and apart from it being a criminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if an adversary, a foreign adversary, is offering information against a political opponent, that it's okay and right and proper and American and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information and that's okay -- that's an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it.

5. Bob Gourley:

   This is a well-resourced adversary.Specifically, they are using the same tools and techniques previously associated with Russia.

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