Englishopposite
adjective
1 she and Alice sat opposite each other:
facing, face to face with, across from;
informal eyeball to eyeball with;
archaic fronting.
3 other authors have expressed opposite views:
conflicting, contrasting, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent, antithetical, converse, contradictory, clashing, contrary, at variance, at odds, different, differing, divergent, dissimilar, unlike, unalike, disagreeing, opposed, opposing, poles apart, polar, obverse;
rare oppugnant.
▷antonyms same, identical, like.
noun
forecasters expected it to be a year of recovery—in fact the opposite was true |
his nature is the opposite of his father's:
reverse, converse, antithesis, contrary, inverse, obverse, contradiction;
the other extreme, the other side of the coin;
Italian per contra;
informal flip side;
rare antipode, antipodes.
| word links | opposite |
related prefix, as in contraception, contraflow related prefix, as in counter-attack, counterclockwise | |
opposite Oxford Dictionary of English