opposite
IPA: ˈɑpʌzʌt
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- An opponent.
- An antonym.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
adjective
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
adverb
- In an opposite position.
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Examples of "opposite" in Sentences
- That is the opposite of elitism.
- That is the opposite of civility.
- It is the opposite of a diminutive.
- It is the opposite of exaggeration.
- That's the opposite of tendentious.
- A theocracy is the opposite of this.
- That is the opposite of battleground.
- That's the opposite of socialization.
- They barracked the enemy in the opposite side.
- Magenta is the opposite of green, and yellow the opposite of blue.
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