Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a diametrical direction; directly; in an extreme degree.
Wiktionary
- adv. Separated by a diameter, on exactly the opposite side. Frequently used in the phrase diametrically opposed meaning absolutely in opposition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a diametrical manner; directly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. as from opposite ends of a diameter
Examples
“The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model.”
“But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals.”
“The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny.”
“This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy.”
“As so many of you do, you picked a username diametrically opposed to who you really are.”
“And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.”
“The National Human Rights Commission on Sunday termed the diametrically opposite findings of two inquiry commissions on Godhra train carnage as "partial reports" and claimed”
“CHURCH: No, I actually -- when I left "Wings," I chose -- I quit the show when my contract was up, but before the series had ended, and I chose to find something that was kind of diametrically opposed that character.”
“On this question, the most secular and the most religious Americans have diametrically opposing views.”
“Our day revolved around these two diametrically opposed initiatives.”
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