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Meaning of opposite
1 definition found From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: opposite adv 1: 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" [syn: {face-to-face}, {opposite}] adj 1: 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" 2: of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" [syn: {opposite}, {paired}] [ant: {alternate}] 3: moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions" 4: the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors" 5: 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 6: 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" [syn: {diametric}, {diametrical}, {opposite}, {polar}] n 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; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'" [syn: {antonym}, {opposite word}, {opposite}] [ant: {equivalent word}, {synonym}] 2: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: {reverse}, {contrary}, {opposite}] 3: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: {opposition}, {opponent}, {opposite}] 4: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse" [syn: {inverse}, {opposite}]
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