opposite

Meanings

Adjective

• Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
• Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
• Facing in the other direction.
• Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
• Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

Noun

• Something opposite or contrary to something else.
• A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
• An opponent.
• An antonym.
• An additive inverse.

Adverb

• In an opposite position.

Origin

• From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō. Compare oppose.