Go Against

Definition: Go Against

Go Against

Verb

1. Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "He violated the agreement to stay away from his ex-wife"; "You are breaking the law!".

2. Act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law".

3. Resist; "buck the trend".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Go Against

Counteraction

Verb: counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; (resist); hinder; repress; (restrain); react; (recoil).

Difficulty

Verb: be difficult; Adjective: run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex; (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of; (hinder).

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Opposition

Contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; come in conflict with.

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Roughness

Verb: be rough; Adjective: go against the grain.

Crosswords: Go Against

I can't go against my religion. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Go against the grain and we convert to the worst (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "go against": go against smb. ♦ go against the current ♦ go against the grain ♦ go against the stomach ♦ To go against ♦ To go against the grain of ♦ to go against time. Additional references.

Chinese 

� � (a measure word, most, peak, to replace, to substitute, top), 戾 (do violence). (various references)

Czech

odporovat (antagonize, contradict, contravene, gainsay, oppose, protest, resist, withstand), být proti. (various references)

French

violenter, trahir (go back on a friend), choquer. (various references)

German

gegen etw. sein, zuwiderhandeln (contravene, counteract, defy, to counteract, violate), ungünstig verlaufen für, sprechen gegen (militate in favour, speak against). (various references)

Greek 

πηγαίνω κόντρα, αντιβαίνω (cut across). (various references)

Hungarian

ár ellen úszik (to go against the tide, to swim against the stream, to swim against the tide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背く　 (to disobey, to go against, to run counter to), 背く (to disobey, to go against, to infringe, to run counter to), 逆らう　 (to defy, to disobey, to go against, to oppose), 逆らう (to defy, to disobey, to go against, to oppose), 悖る (to deviate from, to go against, to oppose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そむく (to disobey, to go against, to infringe, to run counter to), さからう (to defy, to disobey, to go against, to oppose), もとる (to deviate from, to go against, to oppose). (various references)

Manx

obbal (abnegate; refusal, abnegation, abstain, abstention, decline, denial, denounce, denunciation, deny, disavow, disavowal, disclaim, disown, forbid, jib, negate, negation, refuse, refusing, refutation, refute, self-denial, turn down, turn down refuse), goll noi. (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay againstay

Portuguese

ir contra. (various references)

Spanish

ser desfavorable a, ser desfavorable, oponerse a (defy, discourage, not to hold with, object to, oppose, resist, set against), oponerse (antagonize, confront, counter, demur, object, oppose, resist, stand up to, take exception to, withstand), ir en contra de. (various references)

Swedish

strida emot. (various references)

Turkish

ters düşmek (be contradictory, be contrary, belie, collide, contradict, differ), karşı olmak (be against, be down on smb., be opposed to, dissent, face, front, front on to, go counter to, impugn, oppose, set against, weigh against smb.), karşı gelmek (argue, beard, bridle, buck, controvert, cut across, defy, object to, oppose, recalcitrate, transgress), karşı çıkmak (antagonize, argue against smth., be faced with, contravene, deprecate, disaffirm, except, face, go counter to, interpose, mind, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, resist, run counter to, set against, traverse), aykırı olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

іти проти (set against), бути проти. (various references)

contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, contriverim, contriverit, contrivero, contriverunt, contrivi, contrivisset, contrivisti, contrivit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gigatons.

-2 letters: against, agnosia, agonist, antisag, gasting, gigaton, gitanos, staging.

-3 letters: agings, gainst, gating, giants, gigots, gitano, goings, ingots, satang, sating, sonata, stingo, taigas, tangos, tigons, tongas.

-4 letters: again, aging, agios, agist, agons, angas, angst, anoas, antas, antis, gains, gaits, gangs, giant, gigas, gigot, gnats, goats, going, gongs, gonia, ingot, iotas, noggs, ostia, saiga.

+1 letter: sabotaging.

+3 letters: aggradations, aggravations, aggregations, scapegoating, sugarcoating.

+4 letters: exaggerations, miscataloging, scapegoatings.

+5 letters: aggiornamentos, agglomerations, agglutinations, antiaggression, disaggregation, reaggregations.