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opposite
/ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/
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What does opposite mean?
adjective
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Facing in the other direction.
More meanings (13)
adjective
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; antagonistic.
noun
- A person or thing that is importantly (substantively) different from someone or something else.
- Especially, one that is different to the extreme degree of being the reverse.
- An opponent.
- A counterpart.
- An antonym.
- An additive inverse.
adverb
- In an opposite position.
- On another channel at the same time.
preposition
- Facing, or across from.
- In a complementary role to.
- On another channel at the same time.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/
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In all questions, however unimportant in themselves, or unconnected with each other, the same names stand invariably contrasted on the opposite columns.
The soft and continual shimmer of the dying lightning showed a marble face high against the black sky of the opposite quarter.
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All morning long the sun beat upon her cliff, while the ruins on the opposite side of the canyon were in shadow.
Midway between table and bed was the window, with an icy white muslin frill over it, and opposite it was the wash-stand.
A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered.