Usually means: Completely different from each other.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word opposite:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. opposite: Merriam-Webster
  3. opposite, opposite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. opposite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. opposite: Collins English Dictionary
  6. opposite: Vocabulary.com
  7. Opposite, opposite: Wordnik
  8. opposite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. opposite: Wiktionary
  10. opposite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. opposite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. opposite: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. opposite: Dictionary.com
  14. opposite: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. opposite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Opposite (botany), Opposite (category theory), Opposite (semantics), Opposite (song), Opposite, The Opposite (Seinfeld), The Opposite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Opposite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. opposite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. opposite: Rhymezone
  20. opposite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. opposite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. opposite: FreeDictionary.org
  23. opposite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. opposite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opposite: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Opposite (mathematics), opposite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opposite: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposite: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. opposite: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. opposite, opposite: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
adjective:  (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
adjective:  Facing in the other direction.
adjective:  Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
adjective:  Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun:  Something opposite or contrary to something else.
noun:  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.
noun:  An opponent.
noun:  An antonym.
noun:  (mathematics) An additive inverse.
adverb:  In an opposite position.

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