Opposite
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- counterpart and opposite
- counterpart and rival
- opposition and opposite
- opposition and rival
- hostile and opposite
- hostile and rival
- antagonistic and opposite
- antagonistic and rival
- inimical and opposite
- inimical and rival
- adverse and opposite
- adverse and rival
- antipathetic and opposite
- antipathetic and rival
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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His rival/opposite number Head Detective Carlton Lassiter is socially stunted, coming down off of a difficult divorce, and extremely, unhealthily paranoid.
Source: Defective Detective -
While there is a magical reason for it (Malassa is the polar opposite and rival of Elrath the Dragon of Light), it's also partly a Logical Weakness.
Source: Weakened by the Light -
Lewis points out that that The Devil, who is (regrettably) intelligent and the most beautiful of all angels (things which are pretty much always Good) is not, in fact, the opposite and rival force of God, but he's in fact the Rival and Anti-Michael.
Source: Archangel Michael
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