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Opposite

OP'POSITE, a. [L. oppositus.]
1. Standing or situated in front; facing; as an edifice opposite to the Exchange. Brooklyn lies opposite to New York, or on the opposite side of the river.
2. Adverse; repugnant.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that designed in an epic poem.
3. Contrary; as words of opposite significations; opposite terms. The medicine had an effect opposite to what was expected.
4. In botany, growing in pairs, each pair decussated or crossing that above and below it; as opposite leaves or branches.
OP'POSITE, n.
1. An opponent; an adversary; an enemy; an antagonist.
2. That which is opposed or contrary.
opposite appears in definitions for these words:
Abreast Acceleration Adopter Adversary Adverse Adversely Against Alee Alternate Ancipital Answer Antarctic Ante Antecian Anthorism Anti Antichristian Anticlimax Antienneahedral Antiface Antiflattering Antiphrasis Antipodal Antipode Antiprinciple Antiscian Antiscians Antistasis Antistrophe Applause Apposite Apsis Back Base Behind Bifarious Casemate Check-mate Coffee Comet Compound Compressed Con Concession Conspiring Contemper Contemperate Contra-dance Contradictious Contradictorily Contradictory Contradistinct Contradistinction Contradistinctive Contradistinguish Contradistinguishe Contradistinguishi Contrafissure Contranatural Contraposition Contrariant Contrariety Contrarily Contrarious Contrariously Contrariwise Contrary Contrast Contraversion Conuterbuff Converse Correlate Countenance Counter Counter-attraction Counter-dance Counter-evidence Counter-motion Counter-opening Counterbuff Countercurrent Counterlight Countermine Counterpoint Counterpoise Counterpoising Counterscuffle Countersense Countersign Countersway Countertaste Counterview Counterwheel Creeper Cross Cross-bill Cross-examination Cross-examine Cross-examined Dark Demerit Diametrically Dilution Discordant Disputation Dissent Distemper Double-banked Enmity Equitant Excantation Face Facing Fig-marigold Flank Focus Front Head-wind Hippocras Hostile Hypobole Interfere Interfering Interfoliaceous Keelhaul Kyanite Labiate Laxity Laxness Lee Lee-side Lip Looseness Lunet Meet Metemptosis Monsoon Nadir Necessarily Neutralize North Obvolute Off Opponent Oppose Opposite Oppositely Oppositeness Oppositifolious Over Overlay Overthwart Parallax Parallel Parallelogram Parallelopiped Part Pelican Periecian Philopolemic Rainbow React Reconciliation Record Register Repugnant Reverse Reversely Rhomboid Ricochet Rider Right Right-hand Serpentize Shift Singleness Slackness Sleeper Slippery South Sparse Square Stability Staidness Steelyard Stern Summer Symmetry Synthesis Tail Thick Thin Thinness Through Trade-wind Trapezoid Traverse Trestle Trot Trunnion Union Unrepugnant Ventriloquy West

 

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