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   Op·po·site

   /ˈäpəzət/

   

   adjective

   • 1. having a position on the other or further side of something; facing something, especially something of the same type: "a crowd gathered on the opposite side of the street" Similar facingface to face withacross frominformal:eyeball to eyeball witharchaic:frontingfacingopposing
   • ▪ facing the speaker or a specified person or thing: "he went into the store opposite"
   • ▪ (of leaves or shoots) arising in opposed pairs, one on each side of the stem.
   • 2. diametrically different; of a contrary kind: "a word that is opposite in meaning to another" Similar conflictingcontrastingincompatibleirreconcilableinconsistentantitheticalconversecontradictoryclashingcontraryat varianceat oddsdifferentdifferingdivergentdissimilarunlikeunalikedisagreeingopposedopposingpoles apartpolarobverserare:oppugnantOpposite sameidenticallike
   • ▪ being the other of a contrasted pair: "the opposite ends of the price range"

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing that is totally different from or the reverse of someone or something else: "we were opposites in temperament"

   adverb

   • 1. in a position facing a specified or implied subject: "she was sitting almost opposite"

   preposition

   • 1. in a position on the other side of a specific area from; facing: "they sat opposite one another"
   • 2. (of a leading actor) in a complementary role to (another): "the star was a young man playing opposite an older woman"

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin oppositus, past participle of opponere ‘set against’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. oppositely adverb
   • 2. oppositeness noun

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