Definition of Opposites

1. Noun. (plural of opposite) ¹

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Definition of Opposites

1. opposite [n] - See also: opposite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opposites

opposes
opposing
opposingly
opposit
opposite number
opposite numbers
opposite side
opposite sides
opposite word
oppositely
oppositeness
oppositenesses
opposites (current term)
opposites attract
oppositifolious
opposition
opposition parry
opposition research
oppositional
oppositional disorder
oppositionist
oppositionists
oppositions
oppositipetalous
oppositisepalous
oppositive
oppositive case

Literary usage of Opposites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple, ( (1915)
"Pyle's norms represent the average number of opposites that could be written in 60 see. in a group test, using a list formed of tlae opposites of List IV, ..."

2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: In Two Parts : a Book of Directions by Guy Montrose Whipple (1915)
"Pyle's norms represent the average number of opposites that could be written in 0O sec. in a group test, using a list formed of the opposites of List IV, ..."

3. The Soul in Nature: With Supplementary Contributions by Hans Christian Ørsted, Leonard Horner, Joanna B. Horner (1852)
"As opposites in symmetry assist our perception in the comprehension of form, the opposites of light and darkness assist our perception of sensation. ..."

4. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1912)
"Each of the opposites of the manifesting side of himself as an intelligent ... While there are changes in the opposites in the manifesting side of the ..."

5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1902)
"None or slight Hard opposites (number done (2)) and easy opposites (number done 50 (2)). Quickness of association 50 Hard opposites (number done) and ..."

6. Individual Differences in Ability and Improvement and Their Correlations by James Crosby Chapman (1914)
"Hard opposites Test The subject was provided with a list of fifty words as used by Hollingworth ('12), of which the opposites in each case had to be named; ..."

7. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"and only exists in this mutation, things are but a middle-term between opposites ; and whatever point we may seize in the flux of Becoming, we have only a ..."

8. Modern Junior Mathematics by Marie Gugle (1920)
"MODERN JUNIOR MATHEMATICS BOOK THREE CHAPTER ONE A NEW KIND OF NUMBER A. THE MEANING OF opposites In all your previous study of mathematics, you have used ..."

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