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GRADABLE OPPOSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gradable opposition mean? 

GRADABLE OPPOSITION (noun)
  The noun GRADABLE OPPOSITION has 1 sense:

1. an opposition that is capable of being gradedplay

  Familiarity information: GRADABLE OPPOSITION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRADABLE OPPOSITION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An opposition that is capable of being graded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("gradable opposition" is a kind of...):

oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gradable opposition"):

polar opposition (an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles)


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