opposite🔊

Located directly across from something else, or from each other.

(botany) 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; antagonistic. +

Something or someone opposite to something or someone else.

A person or thing that is importantly (substantively) different from someone or something else.

# Especially, one that is different to the extreme degree of being the reverse.

An opponent.

A counterpart.

An antonym.

(mathematics) An additive inverse.

In an opposite position.

(television) On another channel at the same time.

Facing, or across from. +

In a complementary role to.

(television) On another channel at the same time.