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being directly across from each other; facing;
"And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"
"we lived on opposite sides of the street"
"at opposite poles"
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of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem;
"opposite leaves"
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moving or facing away from each other;
"looking in opposite directions"
"they went in opposite directions"
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the other one of a complementary pair;
"the opposite sex"
"the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"
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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"
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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"