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opposite \op"po*site\ ([o^]p"p[-o]*z[i^]t or
[o^]p"p[-o]*s[i^]t), 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; the concert hall and the state theater
stood opposite each other on the plaza.
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2. 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; as, the
office is on the opposite side of town; -- also used both
to describe two objects with respect to each other; as,
the stores were on opposite ends of the mall.
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3. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely
different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
extreme; antonyms have opposite meanings.
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4. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant;
antagonistic.
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Novels, by which the reader is misled into another
sort of pleasure opposite to that which is designed
in an epic poem. --Dryden.
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Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes
almost opposite, significations. --Locke.
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5. (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.
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Opposite \Op"po*site\, n.
1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. [Obs.]
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The opposites of this day's strife. --Shak.
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2. That which is opposed or contrary in character or meaning;
as, sweetness and its opposite; up is the opposite of
down.
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The virtuous man meets with more opposites and
opponents than any other. --Landor.
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{polar opposite} that which is conspicuously different in
most important respects.
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