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English Dictionary: opposite	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for opposite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
opposite adv directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table" Synonym(s): face-to-face, opposite 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" of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" Synonym(s): opposite, paired Antonym(s): alternate moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions" the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors" 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 characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" Synonym(s): diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar n a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'" Synonym(s): antonym, opposite word, opposite Antonym(s): equivalent word, synonym a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" Synonym(s): reverse, contrary, opposite a contestant that you are matched against Synonym(s): opposition, opponent, opposite something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse" Synonym(s): inverse, opposite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opposite \Op"po*site\, n. 1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. [Obs.] The opposites of this day's strife. --Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. --Landor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Opposite \Op"posite\, a. [F., fr. L. oppositus, p. p. of opponere. See {Opponent}.] 1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite* to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme. 3. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. --Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. --Locke. 4. (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.