What does adversary mean?
Adversary means An opponent or rival..
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/ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/ · noun
An opponent or rival..
He prepared to fight his adversary.
In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.
The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.
Use adversary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adversary means An opponent or rival..
Common synonyms include villain, antagonist, opponent.
Possible antonyms include hero, ally.
He prepared to fight his adversary.
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