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Definition of Oppositive
1. Adjective. Expressing antithesis or opposition. "The adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'"
Definition of Oppositive
1. a. Capable of being put in opposition.
Definition of Oppositive
1. Adjective. Expressing contrariety. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oppositive
Literary usage of Oppositive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Affixes in Their Origin & Application: Exhibiting the Etymologic Structure by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1865)
"... or oppositive to an act, and based on verbs. The negative of composed is ...
but its oppositive is decomposed. destruction ..."
2. Basal Concepts in Philosophy: An Inquiry Into Being, Non-being, and Becoming by Alexander Thomas Ormond (1894)
"It is an oppositive excluded conception, which spirit forever wars against and
suppresses, but which never passes into its opposite. ..."
3. St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians & to Philemon: A Revised Text with by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1876)
"So interpreted the words supply the oppositive clause to ... If the sentence had
been undisturbed, this oppositive clause would naturally have been ..."
4. A Corean Manual Or Phrase Book: With Introductory Grammar by James Scott (1893)
"In using manan as an adversative suffix to any verb, Corean syntax frequently
requires that the verbal noun of this same verb—in the oppositive case ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... substituents in the 3 position on cyclopropene reactivity toward furan is Br >
Cl > F, an order directly oppositive to that predicted on steric grounds. ..."
6. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"... ip 505) takes an exactly oppositive view of their relations, based partly on
the fact that extant inscriptions show the procurator rationis privatae to ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1886)
"Thus the element é attached to the last syllable of a com pound gives an oppositive
sense to the whole expression ; for example, o/ur, " I come " simply; ..."
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