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Definition: Unopposed |
UnopposedAdjective1. Not having opposition or an opponent; "unopposed military forces"; "the candidate was unopposed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unopposed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Antonym: opposed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cooperation | Favorable; to; unopposed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unopposed |
| English words defined with "unopposed": Unresisted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unopposed": agravic state ♦ zero-g condition. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | Since estrogen stimulates the growth of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) in preparation for implanting a fertilized egg, it turned out that giving unopposed estrogen could lead to excessive growth of the cells in the endometrial lining and potentially endometrial cancer. (references) | |
They determined that using hormone replacement therapy, mostly unopposed estrogen, led to a small increased risk of localized breast canceran increase of 2.3 percent for each year hormones were used. This increased risk, which was greater in lean women than heavy women, returned almost to normal within 5 years of stopping therapy. (references) | ||
Economic History | Moldova | Running unopposed, he won after the Popular Front's efforts to organize a voter boycott failed. (references) |
Azerbaijan | As the rebels advanced virtually unopposed on Baku, President Elchibey fled to his native province of Nakhchivan. (references) | |
Tunisia | Ben Ali ran for re-election unopposed in 1989 and 1994, and won 99.44% of the vote in 1999 when he faced two weak opponents. (references) | |
Political Economy | Egypt | President Hosni Mubarak was reelected unopposed to a fourth 6-year term in a national referendum in September 1999. The Cabinet and the country's 26 governors are appointed by the President and may be dismissed by him at his discretion. (references) |
Political Rights | Egypt | In September 1999, President Hosni Mubarak was elected unopposed to a fourth 6-year term in a national referendum. (references) |
Marshall Islands | The last Nitijela election was held in November 1999. On January 3, 2000, President Kessai Note was selected unopposed by the Nitijela from among its 33 members. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unopposed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unopposed" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 139 | 26,913 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unopposed": an unopposed second reading ♦ be returned unopposed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
estrogen unopposed | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unopposed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несрещащ съпротива (unresisted), несрещащ възражение. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不受反对. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | élu sans concurrent (returned unopposed), élu par acclamation (elected unopposed, returned unopposed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | widerspruchslos (consistent, meekly, passive, passively, uncontradicted, unprotesting, without contradiction), ohne konkurrenz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωρίσ αντίσταση (resistless), χωρίσ αντίδραση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem ellenzett, ellenállás nélküli (unchecked), ellenállás nélkül (unchecked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opposedunay bez suprotstavljanja. (various references) rakipsiz (matchless, unique, unrivaled, unrivalled, wide open), muhalefetsiz, karşı çıkılmayan. (various references) không gặp sự đối lập, không bị chống lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unopposed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uncomposed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unopposed" (pronounced u'nupō"zd) |
| 5 | -u p ō" z d | deposed, juxtaposed, opposed, proposed, supposed. |
| 4 | -p ō" z d | composed, decomposed, disposed, exposed, imposed, overexposed, posed, predisposed, reimposed, superimposed, transposed. |
| 3 | -ō" z d | closed, disclosed, dozed, enclosed, foreclosed, hosed, nosed, undisclosed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: opposed, snooped, spooned, unposed. | |
-3 letters: nodose, nodous, noosed, odeons, oppose, pooped, pounds, pseudo, sendup, sopped, souped, supped, undoes, upends, upsend. | |
-4 letters: dopes, douse, dunes, dupes, nodes, nodus, noose, nosed, nudes, odeon, opens, pends, peons, pepos, ponds, pones, poods, poons, poops, popes, posed, pound, pseud, snood, snoop, sonde, sound, spend, spode, spoon, spued, updos. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-p-p-s-u" | |
+2 letters: propounders. | |
+4 letters: depopulations. | |
+5 letters: preproductions, pseudoscorpion. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6F 70 70 6F 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --- .--. .--. --- ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101111 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n o p p o s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006F 0070 0070 006F 0073 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558081828281857170 |
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