Synonym of abbey counter

(plural only, obsolete) Originally, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other.

(debating) affirmative; the resolution made by one group and countered by the opposing group's negative

(statistics) A rival hypothesis to the null hypothesis. Their likelihoods are compared by a statistical hypothesis test.

An extravagant initial demand made in expectation of an eventual counter-offer and compromise.

A radically different interpretation of a situation.

(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.

One who, or that which, antagonizes.

(software) Functionality originally intended as a feature, but perceived as a bug, annoyance, or infringement of freedoms by some or even most users.

That counters invasion, or counters something (being) invasive.

Alternative spelling of antipassback [A security mechanism preventing an access card or similar device from being used to enter an area a second time without first leaving it (so that the card cannot be passed back to a second person who wants to enter).]

(chess) Countering the Sicilian Defense.

(mechanics) Countering or preventing backlash (jarring reflex motion in machinery).

(intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.

A category that stands in opposition to another category, or that defies the usual conventions of categories.

The opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.

(military, euphemistic) The carrying out of a preemptive strike.

A device that allows a scintillator to reject false triggers.

A countercountermeasure.

A critique written in response to another critique.

(military) Countering a defense system.

(transitive) To counteract as an antidote.

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face having opposite properties to a given face.

(in fiction) Serving to counteract magic or its effects.

Somebody or something that serves as the opposite of a model, representing what one does not want to be or achieve.

A pattern that acts as a reversal or counterpoint to a dominant motif.

(bridge) Tending to undermine or harm one's position.

(ecology) That counters predation.

A set of actions that is counter to those of another's program

A proverb that contradicts another.

(obsolete) A query made in reply to a query; a counterquestion.

A system that opposes or counteracts another.

(business) Countering a corporate takeover.

A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.

To create antitheses.

A type that represents the opposite or antagonist of another type.

(idiomatic, mildly derogatory) A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general. The term is often used to imply the person is a pedant and incapable of seeing other things or the bigger picture (more general things), but it is also widely used as a mildly derogatory term and even facetious synonym for accountants, CEOs, CFOs, business and government officials responsible for financial decisions, etc.

Alternative spelling of bean counter [(idiomatic, mildly derogatory) A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general. The term is often used to imply the person is a pedant and incapable of seeing other things or the bigger picture (more general things), but it is also widely used as a mildly derogatory term and even facetious synonym for accountants, CEOs, CFOs, business and government officials responsible for financial decisions, etc.]

Alternative spelling of bean counter [(idiomatic, mildly derogatory) A person who is excessively interested in controlling or reducing expenses, increasing profits, or in quantitative details in general. The term is often used to imply the person is a pedant and incapable of seeing other things or the bigger picture (more general things), but it is also widely used as a mildly derogatory term and even facetious synonym for accountants, CEOs, CFOs, business and government officials responsible for financial decisions, etc.]

(law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

A person who confutes

(business) A deal to swap goods or services.

(law) A doctrine of contractual interpretation providing that, where a term is ambiguous, the preferred meaning should be the one that works against the interests of the party who provided the wording.

Alternative form of counterbalanced [Having a counterbalance]

One who contradicts.

Alternative form of contradicter [One who contradicts.]

(linguistics) Describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false

counterfactual

(astrology) The point opposite an antiscion, having the opposing sign and degree.

A pair of objects, one of which is the opposite or mirror-image of the other

(intransitive) To contrast with, or form an opposite to, something.

(art) The position of a figure whose hips and legs are twisted away from the direction of the head and shoulders.

Synonym of counterproposal

Of or in counterpoint.

One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.

A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion.

(countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.

Synonym of counterstimulus

Synonym of counterfort (“buttress built against a wall”)

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.

Something that corrects or counteracts something.

(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

Alternative form of countermelody [(music) a secondary or supplemental melody played simultaneously with the primary melody.]

Alternative form of counter-password [The response to a password, which identities the person to whom the password is given as the correct contact.]

Alternative form of counterpayment [A payment made to recompense, in part or in full, someone who has made a payment.]

Alternative form of counterstatement [A statement made in opposition to, or denial of, another statement.]

Alternative spelling of counterstrategy [Any strategy designed to counter another, or to render something ineffective.]

(US, of a pet) To sneak unsupervised food from a table or kitchen counter.

A treatise or field of study critical of religious apologetics.

Acting against an argument given; intending to counter an argument.

An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents

Alternative spelling of counterattacker [One who carries out a counterattack.]

Alternative form of counterbattery [(military) Directed against opposing artillery.]

To travel in the opposite direction to most commuters; to perform a counter-commute.

Alternative spelling of countercountermeasure [A method of stopping the effects of a suspected countermeasure.]

Alternative form of counterdemonstration [A demonstration in opposition to another demonstration]

Alternative form of counterevidence [(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.]

Alternative form of counterfinality [A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).]

A genocide perpetrated in response or retaliation to another genocide.

(psychology) An intention that goes in the opposite direction from what one wants to happen.

Magic used to counteract or protect against a spell or enchantment.

Alternative form of countermarque [A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals for a seizure conducted under a letter of marque; a letter of countermarque.]

Alternative form of countermeet [To meet in response to; to counter.]

Alternative form of countermelody [(music) a secondary or supplemental melody played simultaneously with the primary melody.]

Alternative form of countermine [A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.]

An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

alternative form of counteroffer [An offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer.]

(politics, sometimes attributive) The force acting against the opposition.

Alternative spelling of counterparty [(finance, insurance, law) The other party to a financial transaction]

Alternative form of counterpayment [A payment made to recompense, in part or in full, someone who has made a payment.]

Alternative form of counterproposal [A proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposal.]

Alternative form of counterpunch [A punch delivered in response to a previous punch by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.]

Alternative spelling of counterrally [A rally (demonstration) held in opposition to another.]

Alternative form of counterrecoil [Of or pertaining to opposition or counteracting of recoil in a gun.]

Alternative form of counterspace [(military) Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.]

Alternative form of countersting [Measures to mislead a sting operation.]

Alternative spelling of counterstrategy [Any strategy designed to counter another, or to render something ineffective.]

Alternative form of counter surf [(US, of a pet) To sneak unsupervised food from a table or kitchen counter.]

(fencing) An attack that responds to the opponent's counter-attack.

A staged trial, running in parallel with a real one that is thought to be politically motivated or otherwise rigged, in which the truth can be made public.

An accusation made in reply to another accusation.

To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on

Anything that serves to counteract something else.

Something that counteracts.

counteraction; action that opposes or goes against something

Something that counteracts.

To cause, or to undergo counteradaptation

A speech or address made in response to another speech.

An advance that counters or goes against another advance.

A disadvantage that cancels out an advantage.

A form of advertising that aims to dissuade consumers from a product or service.

Advice that goes against other advice; opposite advice.

To give the opposite advice.

An agency that counteracts or opposes another agency; a counteracting force.

An agent having the opposite effect; an antidote.

Aggression shown in response to the aggression of another.

Exhibiting or relating to counteraggression; acting aggressively in return.

(intransitive) To engage in counteragitation.

Agitation (the excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.) that opposes agitation by another party.

One who counteragitates.

(military) Attacking the air force of an opposing power.

An alliance formed in opposition to another alliance.

An ambush set up in response to another ambush.

An amendment offered as an alternative to a previously proposed amendment.

An analogy that refutes another, earlier analogy.

An announcement in response to another announcement.

A counterreply.

A legal request opposing an application by another party.

A trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers.

(architecture) An apse opposite another apse.

An argument that is opposed to another argument.

The presentation of counterarguments

Relating to a counterargument

A weapon that is acquired in order to counter one held by an opponent.

An article serving as a rebuttal to another article.

An assassination carried out in response to another assassination.

An assault made in return for another; a counterattack.

To assert in opposition to a previous assertion

An assertion to the contrary.

Alternative form of counter-attack [An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents]

One who carries out a counterattack.

(rare) To attract at the expense of someone or something else.

A secondary attractant

Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.

(rare) Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting.

One who, or that which, counterbalances.

The act by which something is counterbalanced.

A barrage in response to another barrage.

(military) Directed against opposing artillery.

A beat that runs counter to another.

A betrayal in response to a previous betrayal.

contrary to what is stated in the Bible

To make a counterbid

One who counterbids.

A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.

A blockade set up in opposition to another blockade.

A bluff made in response to an opponent's bluff; a counterploy.

An opposing boycott set up in response to another boycott.

A brief that is opposed to, or in response to, another brief.

A buff (strike) in return; a counterblow.

A call raised in opposition or response to another call.

A campaign that opposes another campaign.

A legal case filed in response to another case.

(obsolete) A trick; a delusive contrivance.

(obsolete, nonce word, derogatory) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper.

(psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.

A cause that opposes or counteracts another cause.

A challenge made in response to another challenge.

To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.

An thrust or charge against an enemy in response to their previous attack.

That which counteracts a charm; a counterspell.

To restrict or limit by counteracting.

A cheer in response or opposition to another cheer.

One who counterclaims.

A code given in response to another code.

A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand.

A complaint raised in response to another complaint, and usually against the party that complained first

A conclusion that is the opposite of another.

A condemnation in response to another condemnation.

To condition by means of counterconditioning.

A conquest made in opposition to another, as by a previously conquered entity.

A conspiracy in opposition to another conspiracy.

A convention (meeting) held in response to another convention, and opposing it.

(rare) A counterargument to another counterargument.

A method of stopping the effects of a suspected countermeasure.

(rare) A counterproposal to another counterproposal.

A coup which seeks to overthrow the government installed by a previous coup

A criticism offered in response to a criticism by the opposing party.

(transitive) To respond to (a person who is criticizing) with a criticism of one's own.

A critique in response to another critique.

A cry raised in opposition to another.

(rare, archaic) A polemical response.

A curse cast in retaliation to another curse.

A decision made in response to another decision.

A declaration made in response to another declaration.

A decree made in response to another decree.

A secret document which invalidates or alters a public deed.

(biology) A defensive response to another organism's defense, such as of a parasite or pathogen

That counters another's defense

A definition (of a word or phrase) that opposes another definition.

A demand made in response to another demand.

(colloquial) A counterdemonstration.

(rare) A demolition meant to retaliate for another.

(intransitive) To take part in a demonstration in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time.

A demonstration in opposition to another demonstration

Someone who demonstrates in opposition to another demonstration that is happening nearby at the same time

The deployment of weapons or military forces in response to another deployment.

A deputation that opposes another deputation.

An opposite desire.

A development that counteracts another development.

The reverse image of a die

A difficulty arising in response to another difficulty.

A disposition that opposes another disposition.

A dispute opposing or responding to another dispute.

A distortion in the opposite direction to another distortion.

A doctrine that opposes another doctrine.

A drive that counteracts another drive.

An effect that is the opposite of another (especially another that has the same cause)

An effort made in opposition to another.

elaboration of a counterargument

An embargo that a nation sets up in response to another embargo against it.

An emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion.

An energy that counteracts or opposes another energy.

An enthusiasm that counters or goes against another enthusiasm.

(accounting) Synonym of contra (“entry or account that cancels another entry or account”)

An essay written to refute another essay.

An establishment that opposes another establishment.

An estimate offered in response to another estimate, as being more accurate.

(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.

Being or relating to counterevidence.

An exaggeration in response to another exaggeration.

An excommunication in response to another excommunication.

The giving, or existence, of a counterexample; disproof.

An opposing explanation

(transitive) To exploit in return; to carry out counterexploitation against.

An exposition that responds to, or counters, another exposition.

A counterfactual.

Any factor that counters the effect of another

A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.

A fallacy that opposes another fallacy.

(engineering) A faller that opposes another faller, so that one rises while the other is descending.

Alternative form of counterfacade [(architecture) An inner wall of a church's facade.]

A figure in mythology, etc. representing the opposite of another, such as the Antichrist to Christ.

A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).

A finding that contradicts another finding.

A flood, or large influx of something, that counteracts another.

A force that opposes another force.

A formula that counters or goes against another formula.

A buttress built against a wall.

A gesture made in response to another gesture.

A gift given in response to a gift received.

An attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power.

An alternative interpretation of history

A contrasting hypothesis put forward as a response to another hypothesis.

An opposite idea.

An opposing ideal.

An image that counters or contradicts another.

An imagination that contradicts or opposes another imagination.

To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.

The act of counterimitating.

Exhibiting or relating to counterimitation.

An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.

An incentive not to do something, or one offered in opposition to another incentive.

An inclination that counters or goes against another inclination.

Synonym of contraindicate

contraindication

(transitive) To indoctrinate (somebody) against a previously imparted doctrine.

To influence contrary to another influence.

Information (especially in espionage or propaganda) disseminated as a response and opposition to other information.

Of or relating to counterinformation.

The opposite of informative; unelucidating, or confusing the issue.

An initiative opposing another initiative.

An instance (example) which shows the opposite of a given theory to be true, thus disproving it.

An insult in response to a previous insult.

Alternative form of counter-intention [(psychology) An intention that goes in the opposite direction from what one wants to happen.]

An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.

A struggle against an intervention.

An opposing intrigue or plot.

(countable) Something counterintuitive.

A military invasion in response to another invasion.

invective in response to prior invective

An investigation launched in response to another investigation.

Synonym of countercathexis

(physics) An opposing jet.

A killing carried out in response to another killing.

Misinformation packaged to look like fact.

Any form of language set up in opposition to another, such as slang or code.

An arrangement of counterlaths.

A law that counteracts or opposes another law.

(law) Synonym of countersuit

(logic, philosophy) A proposition that goes against a system of laws.

Legislation that counteracts or opposes another piece of legislation.

A counterfactual life; a life other than the one actually lived.

Resembling or characteristic of a counter (surface).

A machination in response to another machination.

Alternative form of counter-magic [Magic used to counteract or protect against a spell or enchantment.]

An order to the contrary of a previous one.

One who countermands.

A maneuver made in response to another maneuver.

A manifesto opposing another manifesto.

Alternative form of countermaneuver [A maneuver made in response to another maneuver.]

A countermarch.

Alternative form of countermarque. [A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals for a seizure conducted under a letter of marque; a letter of countermarque.]

(military, chiefly in the plural) Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.

To meet in response to; to counter.

A memo in reply to, and opposing, another memo.

A memorandum in reply to, and opposing, another memorandum.

A message that refutes the content of another message.

A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.

A mission whose goal is to disrupt or retaliate against another mission.

The act of countermobilizing.

(intransitive) To mobilize against something.

A conceptual model that describes an alternative possibility to that suggested by an existing model.

A legal motion filed in opposition to a previous motion.

A movement in opposition, or retaliation to another.

That moves in opposition or retaliation

A murder in response to another murder.

Mutiny in response to another mutiny.

A myth that counters or contradicts another.

A narrative that goes against another narrative.

A noise in response or opposition to another noise.

(law) A legal notice sent in reply to an earlier notice from an opposing party.

(law) A legal notification sent in reply to an earlier notice from an opposing party.

An oath opposing or responding to another oath.

(intransitive) To make an objection against another objection.

A legal objection raised in response to an earlier objection.

US spelling of counter-offensive [An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.]

An offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer.

A military operation in response to another operation.

An opinion that is different from or opposite to a previous opinion.

An order (command) made in opposition to a previous one.

(countable) An organization that counteracts or opposes another organization.

(figuratively) An act of avoiding or deflecting in response to an opponent's avoidance or deflection.

(transitive) To counterbalance.

Alternative form of counter-password [The response to a password, which identities the person to whom the password is given as the correct contact.]

That counters persuasion

An opposing petition set up in response to another petition.

One who counterpetitions.

Alternative form of counterphase [(electrical engineering, physics) That have phase difference of around 180°, or 𝜋]

(music) A musical phrase that complements or responds to another phrase.

A picket (protest) set up in opposition to another.

Synonym of counterimage

A piece or component that serves to counterbalance another.

To set up a plan in opposition to another plan.

One who counterplans.

(chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.

One who makes a counterplay.

One who counterpleads.

A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.

A clever trick used to counteract another clever trick.

An opposite point.

To act against with equal power; to balance.

Synonym of shadoof

A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.

The exact opposite.

A pose taken in opposition to another.

An opposite or opposing position

(uncommon) Alternative form of counterpotenty [(heraldry) Having an outline or placement like that of the fur counterpotent (noun).]

A political or other kind of power capable of challenging and potentially removing the power of another.

To preach against something.

A prejudice formed in response to another prejudice.

A premise that opposes another.

Preparation made in response to another party's preparations.

Pressure applied in one direction to counterbalance pressure from another.

A principle in opposition to another principle.

A problem formulated in opposition to another problem.

A process that counteracts or opposes another process.

By extension, to engage in similar competitive posturing or scheduling in any comparable situation.

A programme that counters or responds to another programme.

Psychological programming carried out to combat the effects of earlier programming

A project proposed in opposition to another.

A prophecy predicting the opposite of another prophecy.

A proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposal.

To make a counterproposal.

A proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposition.

A protest held in opposition to another protest.

A person engaging in a counterprotest

One who counterprotests.

A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.

A pull or influence against an existing pull or influence.

To deliver a competitive response to an opponent designed to exploit a weakness created by the opponent's offensive efforts.

A punishment imposed in retaliation for another punishment.

A push in the opposite direction.

A counterquestion.

A question that serves as a reply to, or distraction from, another.

A quip made in response to another quip.

A raid carried out in response to another raid.

A rally (demonstration) held in opposition to another.

An action taken in response to a prior reaction.

To read a text in a critical or oppositional manner.

One who counterreads.

An opposing reason; a reason against something.

A rebuttal to a previous rebuttal.

Of or pertaining to opposition or counteracting of recoil in a gun.

A regime set up in opposition to another.

A rule that opposes another rule

A remark made in opposition to another.

A reply to a reply.

(psychology) resistance to a patient's influence on his or her therapy by the therapist, such as changing the subject

A resolution that counteracts or opposes another resolution.

One who counterresponds.

A response to a response.

A restriction imposed in response to another restriction.

retaliation against a previous retaliation

A reversal in response to, or undoing, a previous reversal.

A riot triggered by another riot.

(fencing) A thrust delivered in response to the opponent's riposte.

A sanction imposed in response to another sanction.

(obsolete) counterbalance

A scheme set up in opposition to another; a counterplot.

A retort; a scoffing utterance in response to another.

Scrutiny against some point or issue being raised.

(nautical) A sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.

An additional seal applied to the reverse of the main seal.

A nonsensical idea; a contradiction in terms; something that contradicts an established principle, architectural or musical style, etc.

A shock that travels in the opposite direction to an applied impulse

(film) A shot taken to contrast with another.

A shout in response or opposition to another shout.

An opposite side.

A siege in response to another siege.

The response to a sign or signal.

A signal produced in response to another signal.

A slogan created to oppose another slogan.

A person who works to counter sorcery; someone who practices countersorcery.

(military) Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.

A spectacle set up in opposition to another.

speech made in opposition to other speech; a verbal comeback

A magic spell that reverses the effects of some other previous spell.

(obsolete) A stand against; opposition, resistance.

A geopolitical state that opposes another, or is set up to challenge its authority.

A statement made in opposition to, or denial of, another statement.

A statute that counteracts or opposes another statute.

(transitive) To steer (a vehicle) in the opposite direction at the beginning of a turn in order to adjust the rider's center of gravity.

A measure taken to correct an action or situation; movement in the opposite direction.

A person or thing acting in opposition to a stereotype.

(transitive) To stimulate in an opposite manner or direction.

(dated) counterfoil

A story that opposes and responds to an existing story.

(social sciences) The dissemination of a story or narrative that goes against the prevailing view.

The opposition of a muscular strain

A stratagem set up to oppose another stratagem.

Relating to counterstrategy.

One who formulates a counterstrategy.

Any strategy designed to counter another, or to render something ineffective.

(military, sports) The tactic of counterattacking

A retaliation.

To struggle in opposition.

A study that goes against another study.

A style that opposes another style.

A suggestion made as an alternative to an earlier idea or suggestion.

Support given to the contrary of an argument, theory etc.

A surge opposing an earlier surge.

A surprise in response or opposition to another surprise.

The art of evading surveillance

(obsolete) A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.

A swing in the opposite direction.

A synod that opposes another synod.

A tactic used in opposition to another.

(rare) A technicality introduced in opposition to another technicality.

A contrary or opposing tendency

(mathematics) A term added to an equation or formula that exactly cancels the contribution of another term which diverges.

(literature, social sciences) A text that opposes another, often by presenting similar events from a different perspective.

A theorem formulated in opposition to another.

A contrasting theory put forward as a response to another theory.

Working against a therapy.

A thesis that rebuts another.

A thought that counters or opposes another thought.

A threat made in response to an earlier threat by another party

A thrust made against another; a counterblow.

A contrary tide.

(obsolete) Opposition; resistance.

(rare) Fanqie.

One who countertrades.

A trend that opposes mainstream or popular trends.

A truth expressed in opposition to the proposed truth.

A tug in the opposite direction.

A type (of person) that opposes and contrasts with another.

To counteract, counterbalance or neutralize.

(countable) An instance of that act or process.

So as to counterbalance.

(military) To target an opponent's assets which are of value but not actually a military threat, such as cities and civilian populations.

A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.

An opposing viewpoint.

Violence in response to earlier violence.

A vision that goes against another vision.

A volley in response or opposition to another volley.

A vote that goes against another.

A wager in response or opposition to another wager.

War waged in response to another war.

A wave (as of public opinion) going against an earlier wave.

(intransitive) To act as counterbalance (against something).

(transitive) To fit with a counterweight.

Witchcraft or rituals used to counter other witchcraft.

A witness whose testimony contradicts that of another witness.

A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function.

(transitive) To work in opposition to; to counteract.

(rare) One who works against something; a saboteur.

A world or realm that opposes or subverts the norms of another world or realm.

(obsolete, UK, law) An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause

An opponent.

(boxing) A counterattack begun immediately after an opponent throws a jab, exploiting the opening in the opponent's position.

Any technique that counteracts clustering (in any sense)

Something used to oppose attacks.

(British spelling) alternative form of defense mechanism [(psychology) A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.]

Alternative form of defence in depth [(military) A strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, potentially yielding a limited amount of territory in order to stress the attacker's logistics and reduce their momentum.]

(psychology) A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.

(rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

The countering of a spell that was cast by an incantation.

(law) A rule applied in United States trademark under which foreign words are translated into English to determine whether they are registrable as trademarks, or are either descriptive or confusingly similar with existing marks.

(rare) Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand).

(proscribed) A false friend, a word that appears to have the same meaning as a given word, but that does not (without regard to whether or not the two terms are cognate).

A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually.

(informal) A necessary consequence or corollary of something that acts as a negation or counterbalance; especially one seen as opposite, or as pro versus con.

(figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.

A swell of support for a proposal that counters any backlash.

One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer.

(archaic) One who stands in opposition to (a belief, cause, etc.); an opposer

(medicine) A gesture or position serving to interrupt dystonic symptoms.

(law) A trademark that is registered without the intent of using it for a product or service, but in an attempt to obstruct the registration of other similar trademarks.

An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.

Alternative form of letter of countermarque

One who is opposed or objects (to a policy, course of action or set of ideas).

One who opposes, one who shows opposition.

An opponent.

(idiomatic) A person who holds a position in an organization that corresponds to that held by another person in another organization; a counterpart

A side, party (e.g. a team or armed force) seen as adversary, enemy etc. opposite one (or more) other(s), as in a battle or team sports competition.

An opposite or contrasting position.

A grammatical case expressing contrariety or opposition, corresponding to the English preposition "against".

A different aspect or way of seeing or thinking about something.

A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

(UK) Alternative spelling of Pac-Man defense. [(business) A response to an attempted hostile takeover of a company, in which the target company, or a 'white knight' acting on its behalf, tries to turn the situation round by acquiring all or much of the other company.]

The concept of an armed attack on another state, when not at war, on the belief that the other state represents a real attack threat. It differs from a preemptive strike which applies to states which are already at war.

rebuttal

A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.

Something that corrects or counteracts.

The act of opposing again.

A counterattack.

A policy of retaliation.

(transitive with to) To defy or oppose something, especially an expectation, custom, or social standard.

An observation that contradicts an accepted law or theory.

A boycott of one organization to put pressure on another organization which is the real target.

An old English children's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters.

surrebutter

A propaganda technique where criticisms are deflected by raising corresponding criticisms of the opposite side.