1. Placed over against; standing or located over against or in front; facing; often with to; as, a
home opposite to the Exchange.
2. Applied to the another of
two things which are entirely various; another; as, the
opposite sex; the
opposite extreme.
3. Extremely various; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. "Novels, by which the reader is misled
into other
sort of pieasure
opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem." (Dryden) "Particles of
speech have divers, and sometimes nearly opposite, significations." (Locke)
4.
Set over against every another, but separated by the intact diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same knot. Placed directly in front of other part or organ, as a stamen which stands till a petal.
Origin: F, fr. L. Oppositus, p. P. Of opponere. See Opponent.
Source: Websters Vocabulary