The other 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 the opposite word for Opposite?

• same

  different, something completely unlike

• similar

  different, unlike

• like

  different, unlike

• identical

  different

• agreeing

  unlike

• compatible

  unlike

• similarity

  something completely unlike

• likeness

  something completely unlike

• agreement

  something completely unlike

• alike

  different

• matching

• alternate

• noncontradictory

• synonym

• corresponding

• uniform

• consistent

• beside

• collectively

• undisputedly

• in the same way

• without dissent

• unitedly

• concertedly

• cooperatively

• in addition

• harmoniously

• consensually

• concorantly

• communally

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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.

1. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] being directly across from each other; facing.

Rhymes with Opposite

• closet
• dauzat
• deposit
• eurodeposit
• exquisite
• lanzet
• opposite
• posit
• prerequisite
• requisite
• rosett
• visit

How do you pronounce opposite?

Pronounce opposite as ˈɑpəzɪt.

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How do you spell opposite? Is it opposit ?

A common misspelling of opposite is opposit

Sentences with opposite

Quotes about opposite

2. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem.

3. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] moving or facing away from each other.

4. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] altogether different in nature or quality or significance.

5. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] the other one of a complementary pair.

6. opposite

noun. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other.

7. opposite

noun. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] a contestant that you are matched against.

8. opposite

adjective. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed.

9. opposite

noun. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] a relation of direct opposition.

10. opposite

noun. [‘ˈɑːpəzɪt’] something inverted in sequence or character or effect.

For ‘Socrates has sight’ is the opposite of ‘Socrates is blind’ in the sense of the word ‘opposite‘ which applies to possession and privation.

The street door opposite opened for the first time, and a woman appeared on the threshold.

The knights, entering at either end of the lists in long procession, arranged themselves in a double file, precisely opposite to each other, the leader of each party being in the centre of the foremost rank, a post which he did not occupy until each had carefully marshalled the ranks of his party, and stationed every one in his place.

He struck the edge of the door of the opposite terminus of the rocky tunnel with his knees, slipped backward, clutched desperately for a moment, and at last hung half within and half without the opening; but he was safe.

Presently the entire company filed on across the clearing and disappeared in the jungle upon the opposite side.

The fellows in their filthy parliaments who learn to speak also learn to be silent—silent as that spy cowering in the house opposite! Silent as he is when I beat on his bedroom door!

I am extremely glad to hear of thy good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor’s there—in the warm lands.»

Wyeth looked in the direction they pointed, but descried nothing but two bald eagles, perched on a low dry branch beyond the thickets, and seeming, from the rapid motion of the boat, to be moving swiftly in an opposite direction.

A momentary expression of astonishment, not unmixed with some confusion, appeared in the face of Sir Mulberry as he read the name; but he subdued it in an instant, and tossing the card to Lord Verisopht, who sat opposite, drew a toothpick from a glass before him, and very leisurely applied it to his mouth.

Another narrow passage led through this wall, and at its end Tarzan and his warriors found themselves in a broad avenue, on the opposite side of which crumbling edifices of hewn granite loomed dark and forbidding.

Wanderer ) for vis-a-vis—in plain English, for opposite couple.

I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.

It had not escaped Sam’s attention that, when this person dismounted, a shabby-looking man in a brown greatcoat shorn of divers buttons, who had been previously slinking about, on the opposite side of the way, crossed over, and remained stationary close by.

Pierre absolutely disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared now to look at Dolokhov, who was sitting opposite him.