Opposite
['ɒpəzɪt;-sɪt] or ['ɑpəzət]
Definition
(adj.) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; 'opposite leaves' .
(adj.) altogether different in nature or quality or significance; 'the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended'; 'it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest'- Charles Reade .
(adj.) the other one of a complementary pair; 'the opposite sex'; 'the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors' .
(adj.) being directly across from each other; facing; 'And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm'- Longfellow; 'we lived on opposite sides of the street'; 'at opposite poles' .
(adj.) moving or facing away from each other; 'looking in opposite directions'; 'they went in opposite directions' .
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
(a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.
(a.) Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
(a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
(a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.
(n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.
(n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Facing, over against.[2]. Contrary, repugnant, diverse, unlike, incompatible, inconsistent.[3]. Adverse, opposed, opposing, antagonistic, hostile, inimical.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Facing, adverse, repugnant, inconsistent, irreconcilable, contrary,antagonistic, counter, contradictory
ANT:Agreeing, coincident, consentaneous
Checker: Seymour
Definition
adj. placed over against: standing in front: situated on opposite sides: contrasted with: opposed to: of an entirely different nature.—n. that which is opposed or contrary: an opponent.—adv. Opp′ositely.—n. Opp′ositeness.—Be opposite with (Shak.) to be perverse and contradictory in dealing with.
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Examples
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? Plato. The Republic.
- The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- By the living Lord it flashed upon me, as I sat opposite to her at the table and saw her with a knife in her hand, that she had done it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He rose, as he spoke, from the chair in which he had been sitting opposite to me up to this time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They took some one else out just before we came opposite. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I had hardly walked half-way towards the house when Sir Percival, who had withdrawn in the opposite direction, suddenly stopped and called me back. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Confused, Mr. Huskisson tried to go around the open door of the carriage, which projected over the opposite rail. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Anselmo found Robert Jordan sitting at the plank table inside the cave with Pablo opposite him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But if, instead of being the personification of reserve and discretion, she were something quite opposite, I should not fear her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were two opposites, his will and the resistant Matter of the earth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yes, he said, they are opposites. Plato. The Republic.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. Plato. The Republic.
- The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Meg was Amy's confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- All these qualities, in him usually so light and careless, she felt to be inseparable from some touch of their opposites in her own breast. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, a dance of opposites. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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