Ŏp'po-site (-zīt)1, a.
a. [Lat. oppositus, p. p. of opponere; Fr. opposite, It. opposito, opposto, O. Sp. oposito, N. Sp. opuesto. See supra.]
Sense 1. Placed over against; standing or situated in front; facing;—often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared. Milton.
Sense 2. Contrasted with; exclusive of; hostile; adverse;—usually with to; applied to effects or tendencies, to signification, feeling, and the like. “Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pleasure opposite to that designed in an epic poem.” Dryden.
Sense 3. Mutually antagonistic; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; diverse.
Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.
Sense 4. (Bot.) Opposed in position;—said of similar parts or organs, so arranged in pairs, that one of them is immediately on the reverse side of some interposed body, or of the axis about which they are disposed, as compared with another. Henslow.