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Bipolar vs Opposite - What's the difference?

bipolar | opposite |

As adjectives the difference between bipolar and opposite

is that bipolar is bipolar (having two poles) while opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other.

As a noun opposite is

something opposite or contrary to another.

As an adverb opposite is

in an opposite position.

As a preposition opposite is

facing, or across from.

bipolar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Involving or having both extremes or poles) at the same time.
  • * 1992 , Paul Gilbert, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness ,
  • (4) the unipolar-bipolar' distinction is important in regard to these personality variables; the trait of extraversion (associated as it is with positive affectivity) may mean that individual variation here leads to a more ' bipolar pattern; ...
  • * 1997 , David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World ,
  • Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.
  • * 2006 , Leandro Herrero, The Leader with Seven Faces: finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization ,
  • And today, the world has become more and more bipolar .
  • Relating to both polar regions
  • (physics) Relating to a bipole
  • Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
  • * 2005 , Barbara E. Bryden, Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease ,
  • And in both visual artists and creative writers, there is a considerably higher risk of affective disorder, more unipolar (depression only) in artists, and more bipolar (mania and depression) in writers, and leading to higher rates of alcoholism and suicide, particularly in writers (Andreasen 1987; DeLong & Aldershof, 1988; Jamison, 1986, 1995).
  • * 2005 , Robert H. Coombs (editor), Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations ,
  • Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar' in adult life, and because Jay's father was '''bipolar''', I added Depakote to "protect" him against this ' bipolar possibility.
  • * 2006 , Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder
  • If a bipolar' person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is ' bipolar .

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    opposite

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    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
  • She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  • Facing in the other direction.
  • They were moving in opposite directions.
  • Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
  • He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
  • Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
  • * Dryden
  • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
  • * John Locke
  • Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.

    Derived terms

    * opposite sex

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something opposite or contrary to another.
  • An opponent.
  • An antonym.
  • "Up" is the opposite of "down".
  • (mathematics) An additive inverse.
  • Derived terms

    * opposites attract

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an opposite position.
  • I was on my seat and she stood opposite .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Facing, or across from.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • In a complementary role to.
  • :
  • See also

    * apposite

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