Opponent vs Disputant - What's the difference?
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An individual or group who is a rival of another.
One who attempts to stop the progression of.
One who objects to.
In team sports, a player of an opposite team.
Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
A participant in a dispute.
* 1893, , Collaboration [http://www.henryjames.org.uk/collab/CLtext.htm]
Opponent is a related term of disputant.
As nouns the difference between opponent and disputant
is that opponent is an individual or group who is a rival of another while disputant is a participant in a dispute.As adjectives the difference between opponent and disputant
is that opponent is situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic while disputant is disputing; engaged in controversy.opponent
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Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* supporter * proponent * advocateAdjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)
disputant
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Noun
(en noun)- One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.