antipode
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈæntɪˌpoʊd/
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antípoda
- From this vantage point, Lanavalli and Andrieu appear to be both its leaders and antipodes, marking out the two horizons of a new literary prospect.
Examples
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He thinks I'm a misfit, an antipode, always looking at the world upside-down.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then, from far away, at an extraordinary distance, I heard, faintly but at the same time with clarity, a jingling, which, because of its distance, made me think of antipodes; it sounded like crystal shards on ice.
Academic text (2007) -
Hungary is the antipode to the Czech and Polish cases.
Academic text (2001) -
For eighteen months, Professor Hapgood received contributions from Europe, America, Japan, and the antipodes.
Fiction book (1998) -
A psychopath's behavior constitutes the antipode of such phenomena and difficulties.
Blog text (2) -
Heraclitean obscurity seems the antipodes to the lucidity demanded by Hegel's logical concept.
Academic text (2017) -
In many ways, love and hate are considered to be the antipode of each other.
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Tropical climates can be seen as the antipode of polar climates in terms of temperature and weather.
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Many argue that ignorance is the antipode of knowledge in any scholarly discussion.
Synonyms
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1.0
A word with a completely different meaning from another word
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4.2
A situation that is the exact opposite of what was expected
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7.9
A person or thing that is the exact opposite of another
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6.2
Something that is the opposite of another thing in order or effect
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of another
A word that has the reverse meaning of another word
Surface Forms
Morphology
antipode = anti + pode
Although the word is historically analyzable as anti- plus a foot-related root, the modern meaning 'direct opposite' is not readily recoverable from the parts for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word antipode comes from Greek parts anti- meaning 'opposite' and pous/podes meaning 'foot', so it first named people who stood with their feet on the opposite side of the Earth. That's why antipode now means something that is the direct opposite of another thing.