English-Portuguese translations for opposite

• oposto
  Mas é exactamente o oposto que é necessário fazer.Exactly the opposite is needed.
  Na verdade, temos de fazer exactamente o oposto. In fact we must do the opposite.
  Talvez devêssemos fazer o oposto. Perhaps we should do the opposite.
• antónimo
  Situações como estas, que sacrificam funções ambientais vitais, são o antónimo de qualquer definição de "desenvolvimento sustentável”. Such changes of use, which sacrifice vital environmental functions, are the opposite of any definition of sustainable development.
• contrário
  Com efeito, é exactamente o contrário. The opposite is true, in fact.
  O contrário é que é obviamente correcto. The opposite is true of course.
  O presente relatório faz exactamente o contrário. This report does just the opposite.
• na frente de
• oponente

Definition of opposite

• Located directly across from something else, or from each other
• Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem
• Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things
• Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic
• Something opposite or contrary to something else
• An antonym
• An additive inverse
• In an opposite position
• Facing, or across from
• In a complementary role to
• On another channel at the same time

Examples

• She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
• They were moving in opposite directions.
• He is attracted to the opposite sex.
• "Up" is the opposite of "down".
• I was on my seat and she stood opposite.
• He lives opposite the pub
• He played opposite Marilyn Monroe
• The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.

Related words

• oppositely
• opposite number
• opposite side
• opposite sex
• opposite angle
• opposite phase
• opposite side of the globe
• opposites attract
• opposite-leaved pondweed