"opposite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

opposite sustantivo

sustantivo + opposite
Kolokacji: 5
opposite of clarity • opposite of football • mirror opposite • direction opposite • wall opposite
opposite + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
opposite attracts • opposite happens • opposite occurs
adjetivo + opposite
Kolokacji: 13
exact opposite • polar opposite • complete opposite • direct opposite • total opposite • ...
(1) exact, direct, precise
Kolokacji: 3
(4) physical, temperamental
Kolokacji: 2
1. physical opposite = fizyczne coś przeciwnego physical opposite
2. temperamental opposite = naturalne coś przeciwnego temperamental opposite
  • Norbert, decent and serious, is the temperamental opposite of his fiery compatriot Conan, who thrives on the savagery of trench warfare.
  • And like most comic pairs, they're temperamental opposites.
  • Combining Grealy's letters with her own spare prose, Patchett portrays a complicated relationship of temperamental opposites.
  • Like fire and frost, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were temperamental opposites whom not even George Washington could reconcile.
  • They were the temperamental opposites of the people who had raised us, this house the opposite of the one we grew up in.
  • People who have known both Bishop Egan and Cardinal O'Connor say that the two men are temperamental opposites, with very different styles and skills.
  • McLaren is, in Roxburgh's estimation, 'an old man in his head', which makes him the temperamental opposite of Ferguson.
  • Using Grealy's vivid letters and her own spare prose, Patchett describes a complicated relationship of temperamental opposites.
  • The characters are drawn too neatly as sets of temperamental opposites.
  • When used as writing machines, computers are temperamental opposites of typewriters.

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