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प्रतीप mfn. mf(आ)n. (fr. प्रति+अप्; cf. अनूप, द्वीप, समीप), ‘against the stream’, ‘ag° the grain’, going in an opposite direction, meeting, encountering, adverse, contrary, opposite, reverse, [MBh.] ; [R.] ; [Ragh.] &c. inverted, out of order, [Suśr.] ; [Var.] displeasing, disagreeable, [Mn.] ; [MBh.] ; [R.] ; [Hariv.] resisting, refractory, cross, obstinate impeding, hindering, [BhP.] ; [MBh.] ; [R.] &c. backward, retrograde turned away, averted, [W.] प्रतीप m. m. an adversary, opponent, [BhP.] N. of a prince, the father of शांतनु and grandfather of भीष्म, [AV.] ; [MBh.] ; [Hariv.] &c. प्रतीप n. n. (in rhet. ) inverse comparison (e.g. ‘the lotus resembles thine eyes’, instead of the usual comparison ‘thine e° resemble the l° ’; 5 forms are enumerated), [Kuval.] ; [Pratāp.] ; [Sāh.] ; [Kpr.] N. of a gram. wk. प्रतीप n. n. against, [RV.] &c. &c. in return, [Bālar.] in inverted order, [Mn.] गम् refractorily (with √ , to resist, [Śak.] ; with अभ्य्-उप-√ गम्, to go against, oppose, [R.] )
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