An adversary is someone who fights against or opposes another. In tennis, you stand across the net from your adversary.
One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose26 or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Noun
someone who offers opposition
n.
One who is turned against another or others with a
design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile
party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
a.
Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
a.
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an
adversary suit.
Adversary
Ad`ver*sa*ry , n.;His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries.
Agree with thine adversary quickly.
It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary.
Adversary
Ad`ver*sa*ry , n.;One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose26 or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose26 or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Usage Examples
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
My adversary is the world of finance.
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
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Other Usage ExamplesLearning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.