adj. 25B6; adjective
the population is opposed to the nuclear power plants : AGAINST, (dead) set against; in opposition, averse, hostile, antagonistic, antipathetic, resistant; informal anti.
their interests were opposed : CONFLICTING, contrasting, incompatible, irreconcilable, antithetical, contradictory, clashing, at variance, at odds, divergent, poles apart.
in favour of.
25A0; as opposed to IN CONTRAST WITH, as against, as contrasted with, rather than, instead of.