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Choose the Right Synonym for opposite Adjective opposite , contradictory , contrary , antithetical mean being so far apart as to be or seem irreconcilable. Examples of opposite in a Sentence Adjective The two boys lived on opposite sides of the street. The two scientists had the same information but reached opposite conclusions. They represent opposite sides of the issue.
They ran in opposite directions. Her music is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the music her mother made.
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Adverb I sat down and he sat opposite. Preposition She lives in the house opposite ours. The school is opposite a park.
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I played opposite the best player in the league. She stars opposite Clint Eastwood in her latest movie. Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective That means that if one side loses traction, the opposite side keeps spinning, powering you forward. Noun Sneeze meter If Hitman is one kind of stealth-assassination game,Skin Deep sure is the polar opposite. Just days after The Old Farmer's Almanac forecasted a warm, wet winter, the other Farmers' Almanac has predicted the exact opposite: A long, cold, snowy winter.
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Adverb Casting talented, boyish Joseph Gordon in the key male role opposite stellar and statuesque Sara Mearns resulted in a peculiar match. Let me draw a number line here. Let's draw a number line.
And let's put some numbers on this number line. We can start at zero, and if we go to the right we have positive numbers. One, two, three, four, five. As we go to the left we get more and more negative. So negative one, negative two, negative three, negative four, and I can keep going on and on and on.
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Let's pick one of these numbers. Let's say that we pick the number three. What is going to be the opposite of the number three? Well the opposite of the number is a number that's the same distance from zero but on the other side. So three is three to the right of zero. So its opposite is going to be three to the left of zero. So the opposite of three is negative three. Let me make a little table here.
If we have the number, the number.
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And then we have its opposite. We have its opposite. So we just figured out that if you have the number three, its opposite is going to be negative three. Now what if your number is negative? What if your number, let's say the number negative four. What's the opposite of that? And I encourage you to pause the video and try to think about it on your own.
Well, you say, okay, negative four is right over here. It is four to the left of zero.