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.
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.”
“It's called an antipode.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shais Taub: Celebrating 70 Years Since The Rebbe Arrived In America
“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
“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.”
“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?”
“* In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.”
“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.”
“This is one of the few places on land in which the antipode is not located on an ocean.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘antipode’.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through th...
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!
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Dain's Words
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Favorite Words II
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary Workbook
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persnickety parlance
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in his dictio...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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Vocab List 2
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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
"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