opposite

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I expect that exactly the opposite will be the case.

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  1. adjective Placed or located directly across from something else or from each other: opposite sides of a building.
  2. adjective Facing the other way; moving or tending away from each other: opposite directions.
  3. adjective Being the other of two complementary or mutually exclusive things: the opposite sex; an opposite role to the lead in the play.
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  • For her to suggest the opposite was a deliberate misrepresentation that your interviewer complacently went along with and even repeated. —  News Dissector Blog
  • Whole language theory postulates that language learning (either native or second language) moves from the whole to the part; rather than building sub-skills like grammar to lead toward higher abilities like reading comprehension, whole language insists the opposite is the way we really learn to use language. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • None of those conditions exist today; indeed just the opposite is the case. —  CPUSA Front Page
  • A comprehensive analysis of trends in Estonia during the last fifteen years shows that to a great extent the opposite is the case: integration has been quick and extensive, bearing in mind how slow changes concerning identity usually are. —  Eurozine articles
  • Humphrey also wrongly assumes I have no longstanding personal knowledge of Thailand and Cambodia (and of Malaysia) when the opposite is the case. —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oppositus, past participle of oppōnere, oppose; see oppose.

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  1. Formerly also opposit; from French opposite = Spanish opósito, n., = Portuguese opposto, opposito, adjective, = Italian opposto, opposito, adjective and n., from Latin oppositus, past participle of opponere, set or place against: see oppone.
 

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