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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Opposite \Op"po*site\, a. [F., fr L. oppositus p. p. of opponere See {Opponent}.] 1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to as a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other as the opposite sex; the opposite extreme. 3. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. --Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. --Locke. 4. (Bot.) a Set over against each other but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node. b Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Opposite \Op"po*site\, n. 1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. [Obs.] The opposites of this day's strife. --Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other --Landor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: opposite adj 1: being directly across from each other facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles" 2: (botany) of leaves etc growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" [syn: {paired}] [ant: {alternate}] 3: moving or facing away from each other "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions" 4: the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors" 5: altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade 6: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: {diametric}, {diametrical}, {polar}] n 1: two words that express opposing concepts; "to him the opposite of gay was depressed" [syn: {antonym}, {opposite word}] 2: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: {reverse}, {contrary}] 3: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: {opposition}, {opponent}] 4: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse" [syn: {inverse}] adv : directly facing each other "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table" [syn: {face-to-face}]
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