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opposite

English

  1. 🔊 of leaves etc
    “opposite leaves”
  2. 🔊 altogether different in nature or quality or significance
    “the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended”
  3. 🔊 the other one of a complementary pair
    “the opposite sex”
  4. 🔊 being directly across from each other
    “And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm”
  5. 🔊 moving or facing away from each other
    “looking in opposite directions”
  6. 🔊 characterized by opposite extremes
    “in diametric contradiction to his claims”
  7. 🔊 something inverted in sequence or character or effect
    “when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse”
  8. 🔊 a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
    “to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'”
  9. 🔊 a contestant that you are matched against
  10. 🔊 a relation of direct opposition
    “we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true”
  11. 🔊 directly facing each other
    “the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 frontero opposite
  2. 🔊 inverso opposite
  3. 🔊 opósito opposite
  4. 🔊 contra opposite, facing

Similar words

antonym opposite word opposition opponent reverse contrary inverse paired diametric diametrical polar face-to-face face to face across adversary adversative adverse adversive against alien antagonistic anti antipathetic antipodal