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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.





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"Opposite" Quotes from Famous Books



... social, commercial and ecclesiastical life was the village green, a plot of ground on which the boys played ball, and in the middle of which was the liberty pole and the band-stand. On one side of the green was a long block of stores, and on the opposite side a row of churches, side by side, five in number. There was the Meeting House, in plain gray; "The First Church of Durford," with a Greek portico in front; "The Central Church," with a box-like tower and a slender steeple with a gilded rooster perched on top—an edifice which looked ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... every direction, in the hope of collecting some insects, when Gringalet pricked up his ears and showed his teeth. The rustling of dry leaves attracted our attention to a slope opposite to us, on which ...
— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart
... Right opposite to Osaka, on the other side of the river Jodo, there is another town called Sakay, not so large as Osaka, but of considerable extent, and having great trade to all the neighbouring country. Having left samples and lists of prices of all our commodities with our host at Osaka, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... thee," answered the squire; "so doff thy clothes. At unt half a man, and I'll lick thee as well as wast ever licked in thy life." He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentlemen who embrace opposite sides of the question; with frequent applications to him to salute that part which is generally introduced into all controversies that arise among the lower orders of the English gentry at horse-races, cock-matches, and ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... the opposite side of the square they were halted by a sudden commotion which drove all thoughts of food out of their minds. From a building across the street issued a bugle-call, upon which an indescribable confusion broke forth. Men ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach


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