COUNTERINSURGENTS Antonyms

• 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

• someone who fights (or is fighting)

• a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air

• someone who fights for a cause

• a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

• a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

• a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

• in opposition to a civil authority or government

• a militant reformer

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• showing a fighting disposition

• engaged in war

• a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

• `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms

• someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

• break with established customs

• of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

• relating to or having the nature of a revolution

• advocating or engaged in revolution

• a radical supporter of political or social revolution

• markedly new or introducing radical change

• an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)

• having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

• a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities