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Opposite

adjective

1.

Being directly across from each other; facing. "We lived on opposite sides of the street" , "At opposite poles"

2.

Of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem. Synonym: paired.

3.

Moving or facing away from each other. "They went in opposite directions"

4.

The other one of a complementary pair. "The two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"

5.

Altogether different in nature or quality or significance. "It is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"

6.

Characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed. Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar. "Diametrical (or opposite) points of view" , "Opposite meanings" , "Extreme and indefensible polar positions"

noun

1.

A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other. Synonyms: antonym, opposite word.

2.

A relation of direct opposition. Synonyms: contrary, reverse.

3.

A contestant that you are matched against. Synonyms: opponent, opposition.

4.

Something inverted in sequence or character or effect. Synonym: inverse.

adverb

1.

Directly facing each other. Synonym: face-to-face. "Lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street" , "They sat opposite at the table"

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"Opposite" Quotes from Famous Books

... postmistress. To some she sold stamps with an air of "God speed you," and they were soon but dwindling specks on the horizon. To others she implied such friendly farewells that there was nothing to do but betake themselves to their saddles. Others had compromised with the saloon opposite, and their roaring mirth came in snatches of song and shouts of laughter. She fastened up the little pile of letters that had remained uncalled for with what seemed a deliberate slowness. Each time any one entered the room she looked ...

— Judith Of The Plains • Marie Manning

... occasional vehicle or pedestrian on the road, and he himself had never stirred or moved, so that he seemed one with the night and one with the shadows where he crouched, and a pair of field-mice that had come from the common opposite went to and fro about their busy occupations at his feet without paying him ...

— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon

... tone that Mr. Woodbourne could bear it no longer, and ordered her instantly to leave the room, and not to appear again till she could shew a little more submission. She obeyed, after a little more sobbing and entreating; and as she closed the door behind her, Harriet came out of the opposite room. ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the central mountains through the main valleys, which had a somewhat steeper slope than now, and the quantity of river-ice must at that time have aided in the transportation of pebbles and boulders. To this state of things gradually succeeded another of an opposite character, when the fall of the rivers from the mountains to the sea became less and less, while the Alps were slowly sinking, and the first retreat of the great glaciers was taking place. Suppose the depression ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... STILL:—The brig Alvena, of Lewistown, is in the Delaware opposite here, with four females on board. The colored man, who has them in charge, was employed by the husband of one of them to bring his wife up. When he arrived here, he found the man had left. As the vessel is bound to Red Bank, I have advised him to take ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

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