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Opposit vs Apposite - What's the difference?

opposit | apposite |

As adjectives the difference between opposit and apposite

is that opposit is archaic form of lang=en while apposite is appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.

As nouns the difference between opposit and apposite

is that opposit is archaic form of lang=en while apposite is something that is apposite.

As a verb opposit

is to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny.

opposit

English

Adjective

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny
  • References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. V, p. 4131, opposit * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XII, p. 0902, opposit ----

    apposite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  • * c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
  • Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
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  • Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
  • * 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
  • Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
  • Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
  • * 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34, page 262,
  • In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
  • Related, homologous.
  • * 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
  • If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Something that is
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles L. Marson, title=Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites

    References

    See also

    * opposite ----