Antipode
[æntipәud]
Definition
(noun.) direct opposite; 'quiet: an antipode to focused busyness'.
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Definition
(n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.
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Examples
- They shall behold the antipodes of what is real--for I will appear to live--while I am--dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I longed only for what suited me--for the antipodes of the Creole: and I longed vainly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The conception of mind as a purely isolated possession of the self is at the very antipodes of the truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is singular that the professor was the antipodes of Captain Swosser and that Mr. Badger is not in the least like either! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He also allowed himself to ridicule the idea of the antipodes, a topsy-turvy world of unima ginable disorder. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Adrian's soul was painted in his countenance, and concealment or deceit were at the antipodes to the dreadless frankness of his nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are a sort of circumnavigator come to settle among us, and will keep up my belief in the antipodes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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