noun
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Something opposite or contrary to something else.
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An opponent.
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An antonym.
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"Up" is the opposite of "down".
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An additive inverse.
adjective
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Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
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She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
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Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
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Facing in the other direction.
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They were moving in opposite directions.
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Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
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He is attracted to the opposite sex.
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Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
adverb
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In an opposite position.
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I was on my seat and she stood opposite.
preposition
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Facing, or across from.
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He lives opposite the pub.
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In a complementary role to.
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He played opposite Marilyn Monroe.
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On another channel at the same time.
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The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.
Examples of opposite in a Sentence
They rode up the opposite hill.
Without another word, he turned the horse and kicked it into a trot in the opposite direction.
Dean began to walk in the opposite direction from which they'd come.
The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights.
The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table.
The bookshelf was empty and weapons lined the opposite wall.
If she asked, a mirror would appear on the opposite wall.
Rhyn and Andre stood near Darkyn between two lines, one of Immortals and the opposite of demons larger than any Gabriel had ever seen.
She sat down in the chair opposite him and studied her coffee.
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile.
Pierre sat opposite Dolokhov and Nicholas Rostov.
Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank.
Dusty felt for her pulse before resting against the cabinets opposite him.
Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and behind the hill.
He would often say the exact opposite of what he had said on a previous occasion, yet both would be right.
Gabriel sat opposite the door while Ully flung himself into a cushy chair.
At the same instant, with a cry like a wail, first one hound, then another, and then another, sprang helter-skelter from the wood opposite and the whole pack rushed across the field toward the very spot where the wolf had disappeared.
With Sonya's help and the maid's, Natasha got the glass she held into the right position opposite the other; her face assumed a serious expression and she sat silent.
Look at the Lopukhins opposite, they cleared out everything two days ago.
In order to see how nearly I could guess, with this experience, at the deepest point in a pond, by observing the outlines of a surface and the character of its shores alone, I made a plan of White Pond, which contains about forty-one acres, and, like this, has no island in it, nor any visible inlet or outlet; and as the line of greatest breadth fell very near the line of least breadth, where two opposite capes approached each other and two opposite bays receded, I ventured to mark a point a short distance from the latter line, but still on the line of greatest length, as the deepest.
It was nearing Christmas and while New York was aglow, my wife and I were just the opposite; out of sync with the mood of the city.
People who say that mean the opposite.
The light from the water was bright enough to show who stood on the opposite shore, caught in what looked like a lover's embrace.
They can take you to the opposite bank, but they're the first to say not to do it.
Opposite the Palazzo Ducale is the cathedral, dedicated to SS.
If it were me, I'd go in the opposite direction.
Minutes later he was back and settling down at the table opposite her.
Instead, the opposite happened.
She hadn't thought she'd wanted the opposite so badly.
Carmen placed a cup of coffee in front of Felipa and then settled into a chair opposite her.
She returned the coffeepot to the stove and dropped to the bench opposite him.
The wall opposite her was all windows, with a beach on the other side.
The fact that at this stage the polarization is a maximum, when the angle through which the light is turned exceeds a right angle, is the more worthy of note, as the opposite result would probably have been expected.
The air, as is now known, has always present in it ions, some carrying a positive and others a negative charge, and those having the opposite sign to the charged body are attracted and tend to discharge it.
Air is drawn by an aspirator between the surfaces, and the ions having the opposite sign to the inner cylinder are deposited on it.
The followers of Credner are literalists; the opposite school of moderns includes some literalists (as Duhm), while others (like Hilgenfeld, and in a modified sense Merx) adopt the old allegorical interpretation which treats the locusts as a figure for the enemies of Jerusalem.
It is good because God willed it, and for no other reason; had He commanded precisely the opposite course of conduct, that course would have been right by the mere fact of His commanding it.
These are not really waves in the ordinary sense, but the disturbance arising from the passage through the medium in opposite directions of two equal trains.
They now bade farewell to the kind but unseen people of the cottage, and after the man had called their attention to a high, pyramid-shaped mountain on the opposite side of the Valley, and told them how to travel in order to reach it, they again started upon their journey.
Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche.
Natasha, who was sitting opposite to him with her eldest daughter on her lap, turned her sparkling eyes swiftly from her husband to the things he showed her.
He crawled onto the window seat opposite her and crossed his legs, laying the clipboard on them while he scanned through her plans.
She rolled over and smoothly converted to a backstroke in the opposite direction.
He drew closer once more, pausing on the opposite side of the counter, watching her in a way that left her feeling as if she was standing naked in his living room, armed with a gun.
Grudgingly, she went to the opened doors opposite her that led directly onto the beach.
The White God, Damian, was cool and wary, his white-blonde hair, golden eyes and subtle white glow the opposite of Xander's darker presence.
A door in one wall was open to reveal the white porcelain sink of a bathroom, and the wall opposite the TV held a kitchenette.
Puzzled, she pushed open the doors on the side of the room opposite the balcony.
At their opposite ends the dorsal and ventral vessels are probably connected with one another by means of a splanchnic sinus surrounding the stomach.
The light actually emitted laterally is thus the same as would be caused by forces exactly the opposite of these acting on the medium otherwise free from disturbance, and it only remains to see what the effect of such force would be.