Usually means: Resistant or defiant against authority.
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  1. oppositional: Merriam-Webster
  2. oppositional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oppositional: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Oppositional, oppositional: Wordnik
  5. oppositional: Wiktionary
  6. oppositional: Dictionary.com
  7. oppositional: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppositional: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppositional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oppositional: Medical dictionary

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adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.

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