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Opposite   /ˈɑpəzət/  /ˈɑpzət/   Listen
adjective
opposite  adj.  
1.
Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange; the concert hall and the state theater stood opposite each other on the plaza.
2.
Situated on the other end of an imaginary line passing through or near the middle of an intervening space or object; of one object with respect to another; as, the office is on the opposite side of town; also used both to describe two objects with respect to each other; as, the stores were on opposite ends of the mall.
3.
Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme; antonyms have opposite meanings.
4.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. "Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem." "Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations."
5.
(Bot.)
(a)
Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
(b)
Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.


noun
Opposite  n.  
1.
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. (Obs.) "The opposites of this day's strife."
2.
That which is opposed or contrary in character or meaning; as, sweetness and its opposite; up is the opposite of down. "The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other."
polar opposite that which is conspicuously different in most important respects.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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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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