opposite
/ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/ noun B1- A person or thing that is importantly (substantively) different from someone or something else.
- Especially, one that is different to the extreme degree of being the reverse.
- An opponent. · The dogfighter fought closely with his opposite.
- A counterpart. · The Swedish diplomat worked closely with his opposite from Denmark.
- An antonym. · "Up" is the opposite of "down".
- An additive inverse.
Plural opposites
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About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street.
Midway between table and bed was the window, with an icy white muslin frill over it, and opposite it was the wash-stand.
Rachel Lynde was a red-hot politician and couldn’t have believed that the political rally could be carried through without her, although she was on the opposite side of politics.
Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.
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