Definitions of 'opposite':
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves
- moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"
- reverse: a relation of direct opposition
- opposition: a contestant that you are matched against
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- face-to-face: directly facing each other
- inverse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- diametric: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
Some basic examples include:
- Cold/Hot
- Up/Down
- Hate/Love
- Natural/Artifical
- Lazy/Energetic
- Right/Wrong
- Inferior/Superior
- Maximum/Minimum
- Fast/Slow
- Found/Lost
- Horizontal/Vertical
- Expensive/Cheap
- Cruel/Kind
- Tall/Small
- Broad/Narrow
- Fat/Thin
- Happy/Sad
- Life/Death
- Optimistic/Pessimistic
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two words with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect; a contradiction in terms; a paradoxical juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory words.
Examples of oxymorons include:
- open secret
- larger half
- clearly confused
- act naturally
- alone together
- found missing
- liquid gas
- civil engineer
- deafening silence
- seriously funny
- living dead
- military intelligence
- jumbo shrimp
- unbiased opinion
- virtual reality
- definite maybe
- original copies
- pretty ugly
- same difference
- plastic glasses
- almost exactly
- constant variable
- even odds
- minor crisis
- extinct life
- genuine imitation
- exact estimate
- only choice
- working holiday
- rolling stop
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