Repugnant vs Opposite - What's the difference?
repugnant | opposite | Related terms |
Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
(legal) Opposed or in conflict.
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Facing in the other direction.
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
* Dryden
* John Locke
Something opposite or contrary to another.
An opponent.
An antonym.
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
In an opposite position.
Facing, or across from.
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*: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.
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As adjectives the difference between repugnant and opposite
is that repugnant is offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion 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.repugnant
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Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.External links
* * ----opposite
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Adjective
(-)- She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
- They were moving in opposite directions.
- He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
- Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.
Derived terms
* opposite sexNoun
(en noun)- "Up" is the opposite of "down".
Derived terms
* opposites attractAdverb
(-)- I was on my seat and she stood opposite .