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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A direct or diametrical opposite: "We just sit and listen to the fullness of the quiet, as an antipode to focused busyness” ( Kathryn A. Knox).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the antipodes, or those who dwell on opposite sides of the globe.
  2. n. One who or that which is in opposition to or over against another.

Wiktionary

  1. n. something directly opposite or diametrically opposed

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. direct opposite

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from antipodes.

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  • bilby *guffaw* Jul 24, 2009
  • chained_bear I'd rather be in that situation than be an anticommode. Jul 23, 2009
  • sionnach But what if you awake to find yourself standing on the surface of a Klein bottle? What then?

    One sneeze and you'd probably vanish up your own butt?

    Gives me an idea for the next volume in my series of children's books, "Millicent the millipede". Oh, the places she'll go! Jul 23, 2009
  • yarb Yes, qroqqa. The antipode to the antipode would be you, or someone very near you. Maybe only a foot away. Jul 23, 2009
  • seanahan This is from the Greek, meaning opposite feet. On a sphere, people on the other side will be upside down, with their feet the opposite way of yours. Jul 23, 2009
  • quotato Is the antipode to the antipode called a "pode"? Jul 23, 2009
  • she In her Adventures in Wonderland, Alice mixes what would've been a clever use of this word up with 'antipathy,' falling down the rabbit-hole:

    "I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think—" (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) (...) Jul 18, 2008

‘antipode’ has been looked up 1204 times, loved by 5 people, added to 33 lists, commented on 8 times, and has a Scrabble score of 11.