Antipodes synonyms

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antipode
Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed
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antithesis
The direct or exact opposite:
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antonym
(Semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.
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contrary
(Logic) A proposition related to another in such a way that if the latter is true, the former must be false, but if the latter is false, the former is not necessarily true.
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converse
The opposite or reverse.
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counter
A counter is defined as a person or thing that counts or keeps score, or a long flat work space.
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opposite
(Mathematics) An additive inverse.
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reverse
A mechanism, etc. for reversing, as a gear arrangement in a transmission that causes a machine, motor vehicle, etc. to run backward or in the opposite direction
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contradictory
(Logic) Any of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
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contrapositive
A proposition derived by negating and permuting the terms of another, equivalent proposition; for example, All not-Y is not-X is the contrapositive of All X is Y.
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support (related)
Financial or other help.
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greenland
The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).
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timbuktu
A city of central Mali near the Niger River northeast of Bamako. Founded in the 11th century by the Tuareg, it became a major trading center (primarily for gold and salt) and a center of Islamic learning by the 14th century. Timbuktu was sacked in 1591 by invaders from Morocco and fell to the French in 1894.
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yukon
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counterpole
The exact opposite.
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counterterm
Antonym
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the-south-seas (related)
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pillars of hercules (related)
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marquesas (related)
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  • That at Anzac, composed mainly of troops from the Antipodes, remained under Gen.

  • Pythagoras had speculated as to the existence of antipodes, but it was not until the first approximately accurate measurements of the globe and estimates of the length and breadth of the Problem oekumene were made by Eratosthenes (c. 250 B.C.) that of the the fact that, as then known, it occupied less than a quarter Antipodes.

  • Similarly, though not with equal precision, the last wave of influenza was shown to have started from central Asia in the spring of 1889, to have travelled through Europe from east to west, to have been carried thence across the sea to America and the Antipodes, until it eventually invaded every inhabited part of the globe (see Influenza).

  • He skulked back to the Antipodes ready, no doubt, to wreak havoc on the next unsuspecting poor soul he came upon.

  • The Stoic philosophers, especially Crates of Mallus, arguing from the love of nature for life, placed an oekumene in each quarter of the sphere, the three unknown worldislands being those of the Antoeci, Perioeci and Antipodes.

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