adjective. Placed or located directly across from something else or from each other.

adjective. Facing the other way; moving or tending away from each other.

adjective. Being the other of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Altogether different, as in nature, quality, or significance.

adjective. Sharply contrasting; antithetical.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Growing in pairs on either side of a stem.

adjective. Arranged on the same radius as another part, as stamens and petals.

noun. One that is opposite or contrary to another.

noun. An opponent or antagonist.

noun. An antonym.

adverb. In an opposite position.

preposition. Across from or facing.

preposition. In a complementary dramatic role to.

In gcom., in any complete set of connectors or fans, said of the first and the (n /2+l)th, when n is even.

noun. In geometry, an opposite point.

That forms or is situated in or on the other or further side, end, or boundary of an interval, space, or thing; placed over against or face to face with (another or one another): literally or figuratively: as, the opposite side of the street or square; the opposite door; an opposite angle.

Contrary; reverse.

Of a totally or radically different nature, quality, or tendency; also (of two persons or things), mutually antagonistic or repugnant; mutually opposed in character or action; contradictory; non-congruent: as, words of opposite meaning; opposite terms.

Adverse; opposed; hostile; antagonistic; inimical.

In botany: Situated on opposite sides of an axis, as leaves when there are two on one node.

Having a position between an organ and the axis on which it is borne, as a stamen when it is opposite a sepal or petal. In both senses opposed to alternate.

noun. One who opposes or is adverse; an opponent; an adversary; an enemy; an antagonist.

noun. That which opposes; that which is opposed or is opposite; a complement in characteristic qualities or properties; specifically, as a logical term, anything contrasted with another in any sense.

noun. [Some modern writers on logic wish to call any two different species of the same genus opposites. This practice has little to recommend it.]

noun. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.

noun. That which is opposed or contrary in character or meaning.

noun. that which is conspicuously different in most important respects.

adjective. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to.

adjective. Situated on the other end of an imaginary line passing through or near the middle of an intervening space or object; -- of one object with respect to another; -- also used both to describe two objects with respect to each other.

adjective. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other

adjective. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.

adjective. Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

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

adjective. Facing in the other direction.

adjective. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.

noun. Something opposite or contrary to another.

noun. An opponent.

noun. An antonym.

noun. An additive inverse.

adverb. In an opposite position.

preposition. Facing, or across from.

preposition. In a complementary role to.

adjective. altogether different in nature or quality or significance

adjective. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem

adjective. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed

noun. something inverted in sequence or character or effect

"But with copper, and substances not sensible to ordinary magnetic impressions, _similar_ poles on opposite sides of the plate neutralize each other; _opposite_ poles exalt the action; and a single pole at the edge or end on does nothing."

analogous  analogue  

apposite  on opposite sides  opposite motion  opposite numbers  opposite points  

different  other  

opposite sex  opposites attract  

contestant  oppositeness  opposition  

adjacent  contrary  narrow  positive  southern  

across  adversary  adversative  adverse  adversive