Definitions For Opportunist

noun

  • A person who places expediency above principle
  • Someone who tries to get an advantage or something valuable from a situation without thinking about what is fair or right

adjective

  • Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

Is Opportunists a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
20

The word Opportunist is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Opportunist in a Sentence

  • A political opportunist who changed his health-care plan to win the election
  • Ever the opportunist, she immediately set about becoming the incoming administrator's new best friend

Synonyms for Opportunist

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