Like
Like adjective - Having qualities in common.
Opposite
Opposite adjective - Being as different as possible.
Usage example: those two are fundamentally opposite—she being loquacious and outgoing where he is quiet and reserved
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Evil Sounds Deep: Compared to his book version, who sounded like a toddler touring with Limp Bizkit, Korrok sounds like Morgan Freeman on the opposite of helium... but still just as childish.
Source: Film / John Dies at the End -
In "Unicorn Point", it's assumed that something similar must have happened with Citizen Red and Suchevane's Photon opposite, but Fleta doesn't recall anything like that.
Source: Literature / Apprentice Adept -
Some writers like pairing up characters of opposite sex and opposite ends of the size spectrum.
Source: Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
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