Another word for opposite

as in contradictory

being as different as possible

those two are fundamentally opposite—she being loquacious and outgoing where he is quiet and reserved

as in contrary

something that is as different as possible from something else

no matter what I say, you insist on the opposite

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What is another word for Opposite?

• contrary

  reverse, different

• reverse

  support, unlike

• inverse

  reverse, contrary

• converse

  reverse, support

• opposed

  rival, adverse

• contradictory

  support, conflicting

• polar

  support, conflicting

• antithetical

  conflicting, support

• counter

  opposed, unlike

• antonym

  something completely unlike

• antithesis

  reverse, something completely unlike

• antagonistic

  rival, adverse

• opposing

  facing, rival

• antipode

  antithesis, something completely unlike

• different

  unlike, comparison

• diametric

  unlike

• conflicting

  rival, opposed

• opposition

  something completely unlike

• adverse

  opposed, different

• dissimilar

  comparison, conflicting

• inconsistent

  unsuited, conflicting

• differing

  contrary, different

• other

  comparison, facing

• obverse

  reverse, unlike

• facing

  opposed, against

• contrasting

  facing, different

• irreconcilable

  unsuited, different

• contradiction

  discrepancy, something completely unlike

• fronting

  facing, against

• diametrical

  facing

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• adj.

  • adverse (adjective)

  • have no use for,
  • down on,
  • down side,
  • most opposite,
  • allergic to,
  • unpropitious.

  • all (adjective)

  • paired,
  • opposite.

  • antithetical (adjective)

  • anti-thetical,
  • in-verse,
  • most polarized,
  • more polarized,
  • anti thetical,
  • most contrasted,
  • more contrasted,
  • in verse.

  • contradictory (adjective)

  • more agin,
  • more paradoxical,
  • more reverse,
  • most against,
  • anti-thetic,
  • in-consistent,
  • in-congruous,
  • most antithetic,
  • conest,
  • more nullifying,
  • most anti,
  • most negating,
  • co-nest,
  • co nest,
  • most nullifying,
  • in congruous,
  • most agin,
  • in consistent,
  • coner,
  • more negating,
  • anti thetic,
  • most paradoxical,
  • more antithetic,
  • more against,
  • most reverse,
  • more anti.

  • counteractive (adjective)

  • counter to,
  • counter-productive,
  • counterproductive.

  • diametric (adjective)

  • inverse,
  • adversarial,
  • Against,
  • reverse,
  • diametric,
  • converse,
  • polar.

  • diametric/diametrical (adjective)

  • most facing,
  • more facing.

  • different (adjective)

  • other.

  • discordant (adjective)

  • unmelodious,
  • contrarient,
  • on a sour note,
  • unmixable,
  • Inconsonant,
  • at odds.

  • dissimilar (adjective)

  • aberrant,
  • far cry,
  • like night and day,
  • mismatched,
  • inconsistent,
  • unique,
  • disparate,
  • not similar,
  • unalike,
  • march to a different drummer,
  • mismated,
  • distinct,
  • heterogeneous,
  • unsimilar,
  • nonuniform.

  • divergent (adjective)

  • factional.

  • diverse (adjective)

  • contrastive,
  • several,
  • Diversiform,
  • mixed bag,
  • incommensurable.

  • hostile (adjective)

  • most ill disposed,
  • in hospitable,
  • un kinder,
  • more illdisposed,
  • un-kinder,
  • most ill-disposed,
  • most oppugnant,
  • un kind,
  • in-hospitable,
  • more ill-disposed,
  • most disapproving,
  • more disapproving,
  • un-sociable,
  • dis approving,
  • un-kindest,
  • un welcoming,
  • ill disposed,
  • illdisposed,
  • dis-approving,
  • more ill disposed,
  • un-kind,
  • most illdisposed,
  • most unwelcoming,
  • un sociable,
  • un kindest,
  • un-welcoming,
  • un favorable,
  • more oppugnant,
  • un sympathetic,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un-favorable.

  • incompatible (adjective)

  • marching different drummer,
  • most inconformable,
  • most unadapted,
  • night day,
  • in appropriate,
  • in-constant,
  • in-conformable,
  • un suited,
  • in-appropriate,
  • more unadapted,
  • un suitable,
  • un-adapted,
  • in conformable,
  • in compatible,
  • un-suitable,
  • in-coherent,
  • un adapted,
  • in-compatible,
  • in-admissible,
  • more inconformable,
  • in admissible,
  • un-suited,
  • marching to different drummer,
  • marching a different drummer,
  • whale difference,
  • marching to a different drummer.

  • opposed/opposing (adjective)

  • more enemy,
  • more battling,
  • more defending,
  • more combating,
  • most obstructive,
  • dis-sentient,
  • de fending,
  • most disputing,
  • most defending,
  • ex-posing,
  • more protesting,
  • most exposing,
  • dis sentient,
  • most opposed,
  • more disputed,
  • more gainsaying,
  • de-fending,
  • more objecting,
  • most protesting,
  • at crosspurposes,
  • against grain,
  • ex posing,
  • more disputing,
  • most dissentient,
  • pro-testing,
  • most combating,
  • most disputed,
  • most objecting,
  • pro testing,
  • more obstructive,
  • more repelling,
  • more crossing,
  • most denying,
  • most controverting,
  • more exposing,
  • most repelling,
  • more controverting,
  • most battling,
  • most crossing,
  • more denying,
  • most enemy,
  • most gainsaying,
  • restrictive,
  • more dissentient.

  • opposing (adjective)

  • more contending,
  • most contending,
  • oppositional.

  • opposite (adjective)

  • con,
  • negative.

  • other (adjective)

  • most otherwise,
  • re-maining,
  • re maining,
  • more otherwise.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • regressive,
  • antithetic,
  • counteractive,
  • divergent,
  • reversed,
  • whale of difference,
  • dissimilar,
  • diverse,
  • AGIN,
  • unwelcoming,
  • unfitted,
  • anti,
  • ill-disposed,
  • far cry from,
  • against the grain,
  • Oppugnant,
  • Inconformable,
  • repugnant,
  • disharmonious,
  • Everted,
  • Polarized,
  • at cross-purposes,
  • discordant,
  • anti-social,
  • poles apart,
  • contradictory,
  • obstructive,
  • up against,
  • inharmonic,
  • paradoxical,
  • at cross purposes,
  • incompatible,
  • unfriendly,
  • not alike,
  • opposed,
  • resentful,
  • antithetical,
  • dissentient,
  • unneighborly,
  • turned back,
  • unadapted,
  • in opposition,
  • no go,
  • hostile,
  • adverse,
  • unconformable.

  • repugnant (adjective)

  • more revulsive,
  • Revulsive,
  • most unconformable,
  • un conformable,
  • dis gusting,
  • dis-gusting,
  • most unfitted,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • more unfitted,
  • un-fitted,
  • most revulsive,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • more unconformable,
  • dis tasteful,
  • un-conformable,
  • un fitted.

  • reversed (adjective)

  • most everted,
  • more contrariwise,
  • most contrariwise,
  • trans-posed,
  • most turned,
  • more everted,
  • more transposed,
  • most transposed,
  • re versed,
  • trans posed,
  • more regressive,
  • more turned,
  • re-versed,
  • most regressive.

  • unfriendly (adjective)

  • un-charitable,
  • dis-affected,
  • most estranged,
  • anti social,
  • un friendly,
  • not on speaking terms,
  • un charitable,
  • most unneighborly,
  • un neighborly,
  • more estranged,
  • more unneighborly,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • dis affected,
  • un-friendlier,
  • un-neighborly,
  • mis anthropic,
  • in auspicious,
  • un friendlier,
  • most grudging,
  • un-friendly,
  • in-auspicious,
  • un friendliest,
  • more grudging,
  • not speaking terms,
  • un-friendliest.

  • unharmonious (adjective)

  • in-harmonic,
  • un-harmonious,
  • un harmonious,
  • most inharmonic,
  • in harmonic,
  • unharmonious,
  • more inharmonic.

  • unlike (adjective)

  • dis-harmonious,
  • most disharmonious,
  • un-likest,
  • un-liker,
  • dis harmonious,
  • un likest,
  • un liker,
  • more disharmonious.

  • unlike, conflicting; completely different (adjective)

  • antagonistic,
  • differing,
  • Contrasted,
  • unrelated,
  • irreconcilable,
  • unconnected,
  • corresponding,
  • diametrically opposed,
  • separate,
  • Fronting,
  • violative,
  • crosswise,
  • independent,
  • flip-side,
  • ornery.

  • unmusical (adjective)

  • un-musical,
  • un musical,
  • unmusical.

• adv

  • abreast (adverb)

  • in alignment,
  • in line.

  • Other relevant words: (adverb)

  • at variance with,
  • contiguous to,
  • verging on,
  • next door to,
  • at the side of,
  • diametrically,
  • connected with,
  • counter,
  • close upon,
  • fornent,
  • at one’s elbow,
  • a step from,
  • contrarily,
  • at the edge of,
  • contrariwise,
  • close to,
  • adjacent to,
  • conversely,
  • Beside,
  • face-to-face,
  • close at hand,
  • in juxtaposition.

• adv.

  • abreast (adverb)

  • shoulder to shoulder.

  • all (adverb)

  • face to face.

  • beside (adverb)

  • neck neck,
  • close hand,
  • at side of,
  • over-looking,
  • at edge of,
  • at one elbow,
  • be-side,
  • close up on,
  • at ones elbow,
  • at elbow,
  • be side.

  • counter (adverb)

  • in defiance of.

• adv. & prep.

  • beside (adverb, preposition)

  • over looking.

• n.

  •
  • in front,
  • in the background,
  • at someone’s heels,
  • inimical,
  • past,
  • behind.
  •
  • facing,
  • the reverse,
  • side by side,
  • retrograde,
  • confronting,
  • balance,
  • matched.
  •
  • to the contrary,
  • support.

  • antithesis (noun)

  • antithesis.

  • antonym (noun)

  • re-verse,
  • re verse.

  • contradiction (noun)

  • dis-agreement,
  • in consistencies,
  • confutations,
  • in-consistencies,
  • buckings,
  • in-congruities,
  • dis-agreements,
  • de fiances,
  • in-consistency,
  • de fiance,
  • gainsayings,
  • de-fiance,
  • in congruity,
  • dis agreements,
  • de-fiances,
  • in-congruity,
  • in consistency,
  • dis agreement,
  • in congruities.

  • contrary (noun)

  • contrary.

  • counterpart (noun)

  • vis-a-vis,
  • spitting image,
  • peas in a pod,
  • spit and image,
  • two of a kind,
  • look alike,
  • opposite number,
  • pendant,
  • pendants.

  • diametrical (noun)

  • diametrical.

  • different (noun)

  • different.

  • enemy (noun)

  • foe,
  • opposition,
  • sectarian,
  • shrew,
  • attacker,
  • Sectary,
  • savage,
  • competitor,
  • sanguinary,
  • enemy,
  • adversary,
  • invader,
  • antagonist,
  • combatant,
  • assailant,
  • Archenemy,
  • rival,
  • opponent.

  • equivalent (noun)

  • same differences.

  • inversion (noun)

  • inversion.

  • negation (noun)

  • Contraries,
  • Negatory,
  • disavowal,
  • disavowals,
  • inverses,
  • NOS,
  • refusal,
  • forget it,
  • Non-existence,
  • neutralizations,
  • neutralization.

  • opponent (noun)

  • contestant,
  • opposer,
  • villain,
  • disputant,
  • foil,
  • assaulter.

  • opposite (noun)

  • opposite word.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • counterpart,
  • contradiction,
  • reciprocals,
  • nonsense,
  • paradox,
  • same difference,
  • antonym,
  • confutation,
  • negation.

  • paradox (noun)

  • non sense,
  • non senses,
  • catch 22’s,
  • non-sense,
  • mis take,
  • catch 22,
  • catch22,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis-take,
  • catch-22’s,
  • mis takes,
  • catch22’s,
  • non-senses.

  • so far (noun)

  • far.

  • something completely unlike (noun)

  • Antipole,
  • other side,
  • other side of coin,
  • another adverse,
  • other extreme,
  • Antilogy.

• prep.

  • across (preposition)

  • be-yond,
  • cross-wise,
  • cross wise,
  • be yond.

  • Other relevant words: (preposition)

  • transversely,
  • across.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • nadir,
  • fore,
  • theater,
  • obverse,
  • rearmost,
  • vice versa,
  • Antipode,
  • theatrical,
  • repertory,
  • antipodean,
  • stage fright,
  • countervailing,
  • rearward,
  • contrapositive,
  • stage,
  • the converse,
  • antonymous,
  • stagestruck,
  • stage name,
  • antipodal,
  • rear,
  • antonymic,
  • season,
  • the contrary,
  • stagecraft,
  • up front,
  • antipodes,
  • method acting.
  •
  • dramatic,
  • dark,
  • wrong,
  • frontal,
  • otherwise,
  • staging,
  • acting,
  • contrast,
  • face.
  •
  • opposing,
  • stock,
  • Onto,
  • pole,
  • rep,
  • dubious.
  •
  • Into,
  • go up.
  •
  • on,
  • in.
  •
  • front,
  • extreme.
  •
  • back.

  • inadequate

  • unsuitable.

  • Other relevant words:

  • unlike,
  • Contra,
  • With,
  • nigh.

How to use «Opposite» in context?

Paraphrases for Opposite:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    contrary, inverse.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inverse.

• Independent

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    Against, Beside, Towards, Versus, heads.
  • Adjective
    competing, corresponding, divergent, perverse, separate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    officers.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    contrast, objection, opponent, opus, violation.
  • Verb, past tense
    rejected, Objected.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    adverse, antagonistic, antithetical, averse, conflicting, confrontational, contradictory, contrasting, converse, counterproductive, flip, hostile, incompatible, inconsistent, inimical, opposing, repugnant, reverse, reversed.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction, contrary, contravention, converse, negation, opposing, opposition, reversal, reverse, VERSA, contrario.