opposite
/ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/ adjective A2- Located directly across from something else, or from each other. · She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Facing in the other direction. · They were moving in opposite directions.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things. · He is attracted to the opposite sex.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; antagonistic. · , Book III Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
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With an air of nonchalance which, under the circumstances, seemed to me to border upon affectation, he lounged up and down the pavement, and gazed vacantly at the ground, the sky, the opposite houses and the line of railings.
In one of the aristocratic mansions built by Puget in the Rue du Grand Cours opposite the Medusa fountain, a second marriage feast was being celebrated, almost at the same hour with the nuptial repast given by Dantès.
During this time, Dantès, at the opposite side of the table, had been occupied in similarly placing his most honored guests.
The laurels among which we lay were immediately opposite the window and not more than a hundred feet from it.
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