opposites
- 1Plural of opposite.
Love and hate are often treated as emotional opposites.
The two candidates held positions that were near opposites on almost every issue.
Note
A regular plural that only the noun can take. The adjective opposite, meaning located directly across, never inflects, so opposite houses keeps its plain form. The plural carries every use of the noun: people who are entirely unlike, antonyms such as hot and cold in a word list, opponents, and, in mathematics, additive inverses like 5 and −5. It usually describes a pair: the two are opposites.
opposites is a form of opposite
opposite, noun: A person or thing that is completely different from another, or the reverse of it in nature, direction or effect. Full entry
- Forms
- oppositeopposites plural
- Spelling
- opposite → opposites: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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