Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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
- n. One of the antipodes, or those who dwell on opposite sides of the globe.
- n. One who or that which is in opposition to or over against another.
Wiktionary
- n. something directly opposite or diametrically opposed
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.
WordNet 3.0
- n. direct opposite
Etymologies
- Back-formation from antipodes. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from antipodes. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Antipov is the 'antipode' for Pasternak, he is the lost child who makes a violent myth of himself, bringing pain and destruction, ending in baffled suicide.”
“We take a bialgebra, and we add an "antipode", which behaves sort of like an inverse operation.”
“Bonnier was equally well-known for his famously roving eye, which may have been alluded to here by the artist in his patron's confident, all-knowing gaze; Nattier's portrait of his wife as the chaste goddess Diana offers a witty antipode.”
“If the Land of Israel is the epicenter of Jewishness, then what is the antipode of Jewishness?”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America
“Imagine a globe that is tilted so that instead of the North and South Poles being at the top and the bottom, Jerusalem is on the "top" and its antipode on the "bottom.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America
“Calculations show that the Chicxulub meteorite was certainly big enough to have triggered eruptions at its antipode.”
The Wall Street Journal: New Suspects in a 65 Million-Year-Old Mystery
“But it seems the Deccan Traps probably lay at least 1,000 miles away from Chicxulub's antipode at the time, though it would take just a little error in our assumptions about the speed and direction of Mexico's and India's motion to put India over the antipode.”
The Wall Street Journal: New Suspects in a 65 Million-Year-Old Mystery
“When we turn the topic to relaxation's antipode, stress, the bravado of a few -- "I'm fine, we're all fine," claims one boy; "it was simply a natural disaster" intones another -- contends with the more complex memories of their classmates.”
The Huffington Post: James S. Gordon: At School: A Place to Help Haitian Children
“He had to leave the island to find himself as a black man, eventually rooting in Chicago, the antipode of remote and exotic Honolulu, deep in the fold of the mainland, and there set out on the path that led toward politics and national power.”
“What drug, what surgical operation, what wisdom from what physician, what felicitous phrase from the Santo antipode Vin Scully could have been better treatment for a sick old baseball guy?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antipode’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Remember Not To Forget
Sephardic, Umwelt, amphiboly, untrammeled, sequela, pandiculation, tensegrity, syncretism, pugilism, shemagh, disquisition, perspicacity and 61 more...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and ...
Words that, as I see it, have some fond connection to the Alice stories through their creation or particular use by Lewis Carroll. I mean to tie them all together with contexty comments!
alice, daisy-chain, white rabbit, waistcoat-pocket, rabbit-hole, marmalade, antipathy, antipode, curtsey, dinah, tea-time, rat-hole and 232 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abetting, abdominal, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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Words + Phrases I Like
apotheosis, antipode, penumbra, umbra, bellatrix, zephyr, oblivion, nefarious, wicked, requiem, catalyst, ire and 89 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A word that pricks the long ears of certain Wordnik marsupials. I expect bilby to pop in any second. In the meantime, the word was used in railroad telegraphs to signify "Appearances are doubtful". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Jan 19, 2013
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