100 Best Synonyms for “Against”

No.	Item	Definition
1.	adverse to	opposed or unfavorable to
2.	antagonistic to	actively hostile toward
3.	anti	opposed to
4.	as opposed to	rather than; in contrast with
5.	assailing	attacking strongly
6.	at odds with	in disagreement with
7.	at variance with	in disagreement with
8.	athwart	across or against
9.	attacking	criticizing or assaulting
10.	averse to	strongly disliking
11.	battling	engaged in conflict with
12.	beating	defeating in contest
13.	belied by	shown false by
14.	blocking	preventing movement or progress
15.	checking	holding back or restraining
16.	clashing with	coming into conflict with
17.	combating	fighting against
18.	condemning	expressing strong disapproval
19.	contesting	challenging or opposing
20.	contradicting	stating the opposite of
21.	contrary to	in conflict with
22.	counter to	in opposition to
23.	countering	acting in response against
24.	critical of	expressing disapproval of
25.	damaging to	causing harm to
26.	decrying	strongly criticizing
27.	defeating	winning against
28.	defying	openly resisting
29.	denouncing	publicly condemning
30.	detrimental to	causing disadvantage to
31.	disinclined toward	not favorably disposed toward
32.	disputing	arguing against
33.	face to face with	directly confronting
34.	facing	positioned opposite
35.	fending off	driving away
36.	fighting	struggling against
37.	flush with	evenly aligned against
38.	foiling	stopping from succeeding
39.	fronting	facing toward
40.	frustrating	preventing from succeeding
41.	gainsaying	denying or contradicting
42.	hard by	close against or beside
43.	hindering	making progress difficult
44.	hostile to	showing opposition toward
45.	impeding	slowing or obstructing
46.	in conflict with	clashing with
47.	in contrast to	showing difference from
48.	in defiance of	openly resisting
49.	in opposition to	actively resisting
50.	in resistance to	as opposition to
51.	incompatible with	unable to exist with
52.	inconsistent with	not in agreement with
53.	injurious to	harmful to
54.	invalidating	showing to be unsound
55.	juxtaposed with	placed side by side with
56.	negating	making ineffective or invalid
57.	negative toward	showing disapproval of
58.	neutralizing	making ineffective
59.	next to	beside or against
60.	objecting to	expressing opposition to
61.	obstructing	blocking or opposing
62.	offsetting	balancing against
63.	offside with	not aligned with
64.	on	in contact with
65.	opposed to	in opposition to
66.	opposing	acting against
67.	opposite to	facing or contrasting with
68.	out of keeping with	not suitable with
69.	out of step with	not in agreement with
70.	overcoming	successfully dealing with
71.	prejudicial to	harmful or unfavorable to
72.	preventing	stopping from happening
73.	protecting from	keeping safe from
74.	protesting	showing public opposition
75.	quashing	crushing completely
76.	rather than	instead of
77.	rebutting	arguing against successfully
78.	refuting	proving wrong
79.	rejecting	refusing to accept
80.	relative to	in relation to
81.	resisting	fighting or pushing back against
82.	restraining	holding back
83.	running counter to	going against
84.	staving off	keeping away temporarily
85.	subduing	bringing under control
86.	suppressing	putting down forcefully
87.	thwarting	preventing success of
88.	to the detriment of	causing harm to
89.	toward	in the direction of
90.	towards	in the direction of
91.	unfavorable to	not supportive of
92.	unsympathetic to	not supportive toward
93.	up to	touching or near
94.	upon	on or against
95.	versus	in competition or conflict with
96.	vis-à-vis	facing or compared with
97.	warding off	keeping away
98.	warring with	in armed conflict with
99.	with respect to	regarding in relation to
100.	withstanding	resisting successfully