Opposite

//ˈɒpəzɪt//

"Opposite" in a Sentence (23 examples)

I can't say the opposite.

Delight is the opposite of sorrow.

By mistake I boarded a train going in the opposite direction.

The flower shop is opposite the park.

Love and hate are opposite emotions.

The very opposite is the truth.

The young man came out of the house opposite.

The house is opposite the church. You can't miss it.

The goals were placed at the opposite ends of the town.

They live in the house opposite to ours.

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She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.

They were moving in opposite directions.

He is attracted to the opposite sex.

Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem.

, Book III Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.

She is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend who abused her both physically and verbally nearly every day for five years. She now works as an advocate and supportive listener for others who have endured abusive relationships.

"Up" is the opposite of "down".

I was on my seat and she stood opposite.

Where's the bus station? -Over there, just opposite.

There’s a bus stop opposite the faculty entrance, right on the other side of the road.

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

He played opposite Marilyn Monroe.

The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.

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