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Meanings of antipodal opposition in English

The relation of opposition along a diameter.

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        Examples for "antipodal"
        Examples for "antipodal"
        1
        This strange antipodal civilization also retains a curious flavor of Elizabethan ideas.
        The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
        2
        I should like to see them together, they are such antipodal men.
        The Morgesons: A Novel
        3
        I conclude to hazard one, so here goes antipodal resolution No.
        Round the World
        4
        Now to this whole form of consciousness, poor Shelley's mind is altogether antipodal.
        Literary and General Lectures and Essays
        5
        What poet is more utterly antipodal to our modern schools?
        Literary and General Lectures and Essays
        1
        The doctrine of the Sufis was in diametrical opposition to this.
        Mystics and Saints of Islam
        2
        He was informed that these were in diametrical opposition to those of the Maritime Institute.
        The Irish Times
        3
        What a cruel position to have God's command and God's promise apparently in diametrical opposition!
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Nu...
        4
        These two words are brought into diametrical opposition in the text, so that it branches into a two-fold line of thought
        Sermons Preached at Brighton / Third Series
        5
        At all events he had exposed himself to reproach, by acting in diametrical opposition to the professions of his whole life.
        The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...