Opposite

/ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

Located directly across from something else, or from each other..

Definitions by Sense

1. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
2. (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
3. Facing in the other direction.
4. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
5. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
6. Something opposite or contrary to something else.
7. 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.
8. An opponent.

Example Sentences

She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.

They were moving in opposite directions.

He is attracted to the opposite sex.

, Book III Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.

Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem.

She is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend who abused her both physically and verbally nearly every day for five years. She now works as an advocate and supportive listener for others who have endured abusive relationships.

"Up" is the opposite of "down".

I was on my seat and she stood opposite.

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• opposit
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