'opposite' definitions:

adverb

Directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table" [syn: face-to-face, opposite]

adjective

Being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles"

adjective

Of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" [syn: opposite, paired] [ant: alternate]

adjective

Moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions"

adjective

The other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"

adjective

Altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade

adjective

Characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar]

noun

A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'" [syn: antonym, opposite word, opposite] [ant: equivalent word, synonym]

noun

A relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite]

noun

A contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite]

noun

Something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse" [syn: inverse, opposite]