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apposite (AP uh zit) (adjective)
Especially well suited to the circumstances; strikingly appropriate and relevant: When asked about her political choices, Mae made an apposite answer.
opposite (AHP uh zit) (adjective)
1. Placed or located directly across from something else or from each other: The two houses are on opposite sides of the street.
2. Facing the other way; moving or tending away from each other: Enrique and Felicia went in opposite directions.
2. Facing the other way; moving or tending away from each other: Enrique and Felicia went in opposite directions.
When Mabel attended her first political meetings, she was seated opposite the contesting candidates. During the meeting she asked several apposite questions of each candidate.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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opposite (adjective) (no comparatives)
1. Placed or located directly across from something else or from another position: The two apartments were on opposite sides of the building.
2. Facing the other way; moving or tending go in a different direction than someone else: The two families were driving their cars in opposite directions.
3. A reference to being on another section of two similar areas of something: Lucy and Jack were looking at the opposite surfaces of the coins to determine their production or minting dates.
2. Facing the other way; moving or tending go in a different direction than someone else: The two families were driving their cars in opposite directions.
3. A reference to being on another section of two similar areas of something: Lucy and Jack were looking at the opposite surfaces of the coins to determine their production or minting dates.
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pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound
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Something or someone that is completely different from the others: The two sisters, Sue and Olive, are exact opposites in that one is very outgoing and friendly and the other one is very shy and withdrawn.
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pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound
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Units related to:
“opposite”
(Latin: against, opposed to, opposite, conflicting, different, clashing, unaccommodating)
(Latin: different, separate, opposite; literally, turned away [from each other])
(Greek: opposite, opposing, over against; [en- + anti])
(Greek: turning like oxen in plowing; alternate lines in opposite directions; zig-zag procedure)
(Greek: ion, "going"; neuter present participle of ienai, "to go"; because an ion moves toward the electrode of an opposite charge)
(Greek > Latin > Old French > French: pretended ignorance; saying the opposite of what a person really means)
(Greek > Latin: to do, to exercise, doing; action, activity, practice; the opposite of theory; from the stem of prassein, "to do, to act")
(Greek: that which may be turned or spun around; magician's circle; equilateral parallelogram in which only the opposite angles are equal)
(Latin > French: to seek amusement, literally, "to carry oneself in the opposite direction")
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“opposite”
Congress is the opposite of progress.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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