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ACQUIESCENCES Antonyms

There are 10 antonyms of the word acquiescences. (opposite meanings)
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Best Opposite Words For ACQUIESCENCES

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defiance
nounn
noun

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

disagreement
nounn
noun

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

• the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

disapproval
nounn
noun

• a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

• the expression of disapproval

• an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

• the act of disapproving or condemning

dissent
verb, nounv, n
noun

• (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority

• a difference of opinion

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

verb

• withhold assent

• express opposition through action or words

• be of different opinions

objection
nounn
noun

• the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

• the speech act of objecting

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality

opposition
nounn
noun

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

protest
verb, nounv, n
noun

• a formal and solemn declaration of objection

• the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

• the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval

verb

• utter words of protest

• express opposition through action or words

• affirm or avow formally or solemnly

refusal
nounn
noun

• the act of refusing

• a message refusing to accept something that is offered

rejection
nounn
noun

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

resistance
nounn
noun

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

Alternatives for DEFIANCE

Alternatives for DISAGREEMENT

Alternatives for DISAPPROVAL

Alternatives for DISSENT

Alternatives for OBJECTION

Alternatives for OPPOSITION

Alternatives for PROTEST

Alternatives for REFUSAL

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