Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of opposite is as below...

Anticlinal :: Anticlinal (n.) The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

Histogenesis :: Histogenesis (n.) The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve..

Counter :: Counter (adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.

Register :: Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet..

Heteropathy :: Heteropathy (n.) That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy..

Part :: Part (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure..

Subindicate :: Subindex (n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices..

Credit :: Credit (n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B..

Gab :: Gab (n.) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Thorough-lighted :: Thorough-lighted (a.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building..

Monism :: Monism (n.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.

Antonym :: Antonym (n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

Against :: Against (prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over..

De- :: De- () A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc..

Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.

Contrecoup :: Contrecoup (n.) A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected..

Antimere :: Antimere (n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

Trestletree :: Trestletree (n.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural..

Random Fonts

Most Popular