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- adversative
- adverse
- adverse to
- adversive
- against
- against the grain
- against the tide
- against the wind
- antagonistic
- anti
- antipathetic
- antithetic
- antonymous
- at cross-purposes with
- at daggers
- at daggers drawn
- at enmity
- at feud
- at issue
- at loggerheads
- at odds
- at outs
- at square
- at strife
- at variance
- at war
- at war with
- athwart
- balancing
- clashing
- compensating
- con
- conflicting
- confronting
- contra
- contradictory
- contradistinct
- contrapositive
- contrarious
- contrariwise
- contrary
- contrasted
- converse
- counter
- counter to
- counterbalancing
- counterpoised
- countervailing
- cranky
- cross
- dead against
- differing
- disaccordant
- disagreeable
- disagreeing
- discordant
- discrepant
- disharmonious
- disproportionate
- dissident
- dissonant
- divergent
- eyeball to eyeball
- eyeball-to-eyeball
- grating
- hostile
- immiscible
- in conflict with
- in confrontation
- in hostile array
- in opposition
- in opposition to
- inaccordant
- incompatible
- inconsistent
- inharmonious
- inimical
- inverse
- jangling
- jarring
- negative
- obverse
- on the outs
- opposed
- opposed to
- opposing
- opposite
- oppositional
- oppositive
- oppugnant
- out of accord
- out of whack
- perverse
- repugnant
- reverse
- squared off
- uncongenial
- unharmonious
- up in arms
- variant
- versus
- vis-a-vis
- with crossed bayonets
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