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opposite

Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ə.zɪt/

The English word “opposite” has 15 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
  2. 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; antagonistic.

noun

  1. A person or thing that is importantly (substantively) different from someone or something else.
  2. Especially, one that is different to the extreme degree of being the reverse.
  3. An opponent.
  4. A counterpart.
  5. An antonym.
  6. An additive inverse.

adverb

  1. In an opposite position.
  2. On another channel at the same time.

preposition

  1. Facing, or across from.
  2. In a complementary role to.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English opposit, borrowed from Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”). Compare oppose.

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