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Adversarial vs Nonadversarial - What's the difference?

adversarial | nonadversarial |

As adjectives the difference between adversarial and nonadversarial

is that adversarial is characteristic of, or in the manner of, an adversary; combative, hostile, opposed while nonadversarial is not adversarial.

adversarial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of, or in the manner of, an adversary; combative, hostile, opposed
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial . }}

    Antonyms

    * cooperative

    Derived terms

    * adversarial system * adversarially

    nonadversarial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not adversarial.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 19, author=Adam Liptak, title=White House Shifting Tactics in Spy Cases, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=On Wednesday, the administration announced that an unnamed judge on the secret court, in a nonadversarial proceeding that apparently cannot be appealed, had issued orders that apparently both granted surveillance requests and set out some ground rules for how such requests would be handled. }}