English Dictionary

opposite

/ˈɒpəzɪt/

adj

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.

The two houses are opposite each other.

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

(botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.

意味（3）

Facing in the other direction.

They were moving in opposite directions.

意味（4）

Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.

He is attracted to the opposite sex.

意味（5）

Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

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