adversative adverse adversive against the grain against the tide against the wind antagonistic anti antipathetic antipodal antithetic antonymous at cross-purposes at daggers at daggers drawn at issue at odds at opposite extremes at variance at war with athwart back to back balancing clashing compensating conflicting confronting contra contradictory contradistinct contrapositive contrarious contrariwise contrary contrasted converse counter counterbalancing counterpoised countervailing cross dead against discordant discrepant eyeball-to-eyeball face to face facing fronting hostile in confrontation in hostile array in opposition inconsistent inimical inverse just opposite nose to nose obverse opposed opposing opposite oppositional oppositive oppugnant perverse polar polaric polarized poles apart repugnant reverse squared off up in arms vis-a-vis with crossed bayonets