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opposite

/ˈɑ.pə.sɪt/ adjective A2
  1. Located directly across from something else, or from each other. · She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  2. Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
  3. Facing in the other direction. · They were moving in opposite directions.
  4. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things. · He is attracted to the opposite sex.
  5. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; antagonistic. · , Book III Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
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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.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 24 · C1
Midway between table and bed was the window, with an icy white muslin frill over it, and opposite it was the wash-stand.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 35 · C1
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 132 · C1
Elizabeth, at work in the opposite corner, saw it all with great delight.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 59 · B2

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