Definition of "oppositive" []

• Expressing contrariety. (adjective)

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• "Not surprisingly, it appears as if this legislation is doing the oppositive of what supporters said it would do."
• "According to Stevenson -- I do not say he is right, but I do quote his words as worth attention -- we are not damned so much for yielding to evil, as for not getting into our life its oppositive virtue; some content vital enough to cast out the evil, and to keep it out."
• "Neither was the duty so unpleasant to Thomas's oppositive nature, as it would have been to a man of easier temperament."