Definitions for opportunist

opportunist op·por·tun·ist

Spelling: [op-er-too-nist, -tyoo-]
IPA: /ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪst, -ˈtyu-/

Opportunist is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 579 anagrams from letters in opportunist (inoopprsttu).

Definitions for opportunist

noun

  1. a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles:

Examples for opportunist

Ever the shape-shifter and opportunist, he ended his career as a high official in the very empire he had once helped defeat.

I could read that opportunist's motives as easily as if he had written them down for my instruction.

Frankly, I'm an opportunist; essentially, a practical sort of fellow.

More often, the line between angel and opportunist is blurred.

He has been an opportunist rather than a dealer in general ideas.

Kardashian, ever the opportunist, no doubt surveyed the gluteus landscape and wanted in on the cultural “conversation.”

“In this,” says Lowe, “Bismarck was an opportunist,” as he often was.

Its policy has been that of an opportunist, at the best,—or an obstructionist, at the worst.

No, Bryan is not an opportunist—not in things that really matter.

He was an opportunist, and now, he fondly imagined, was his opportunity.

Word Value for opportunist
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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