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Oppositional vs Appositional - What's the difference?

oppositional | appositional |

As adjectives the difference between oppositional and appositional

is that oppositional is of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition while appositional is relating to apposition.

oppositional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 10, author=Steven Lee Myers, title=Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=And he has brought to oppositional politics the same energy and aggression that characterized his chess, attacking Mr. Putin and the Kremlin — or the regime, as he repeatedly calls it — with language rarely spoken so bluntly in Russia. }}

    Derived terms

    *oppositionally *oppositionality

    appositional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to apposition.