opportunistic

Speech parts

1. opportunistic - Adjective

2. opportunistic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

opportunist timeserving uptown machiavellian seasonable practical capable diplomatic strategic smooth excessive calculating eager enthusiastic polite
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Antonyms

brut low religious spiritual detrimental illiterate
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Related terms

opportunity opportunist opportunism

Phrases with the word

opportunistic self-interest opportunistic infections opportunistic mycosis opportunistic diseases opportunistic pathogens

Examples

After the election, hundreds of thousands of new members joined the party for opportunistic reasons, most of them civil servants and white-collar workers. Source: Internet

Among opportunistic infections, tuberculosis, multidermatomal herpes zoster, esophageal candidiasis, pneumocystosis, acute histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, cytomegalovirus and BK virus were reported with Olumiant. Source: Internet

An opportunistic street trader was confronted after selling overprices surgical face masks - despite government warnings that vendors could five jail for ripping people off. Source: Internet

Canada spent most of the first half in its own end but scored an opportunistic try that saw Sauder chip the Irish line, get a favourable bounce and run in unmolested. Source: Internet

As bad as it is, though, Gov. Doug Burgum’s cynical, opportunistic and self-serving campaign against it is even worse. Source: Internet

As such they are often classed as opportunistic r-strategists (i.e. those organisms whose ecology is defined by a high growth rate, r). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

opportuning opportunism opportunist opportunistic diseases opportunistic infection opportunistic infections