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Opposite vs Contradistinct - What's the difference?

opposite | contradistinct |

As adjectives the difference between opposite and contradistinct

is that opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other while contradistinct is distinguished by opposite qualities.

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.

opposite

English

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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    contradistinct

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Distinguished by opposite qualities.
  • * Goodwin
    • When we speak of the judgment of charity, we intend not a loose conjecture, much less a judgment contradistinct from that which is righteous, but a righteous and strict judgment, according to the exactest rules whatsoever that we have to judge by, free from evil surmises, and such like vices of the mind as are opposed to the grace of love.