diametrically
IPA: daɪʌmˈɛtrɪkʌɫi
adverb
- Separated by a diameter, on exactly the opposite side.
- (especially in the phrase diametrically opposed) Absolutely (in opposition).
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Examples of "diametrically" in Sentences
- These are diametrically opposed.
- As so many of you do, you picked a username diametrically opposed to who you really are.
- The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny.
- But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals.
- This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy.
- And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
- The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model.
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