Meaning of polar opposite | Babel Free

Definitions

The complete opposite, opposite in every way.

Examples

“Rusticity and Urbanity are polar opposites—and there lie between many million modes of Manners.”

“Buddhism, which regards all existence as no more than illusion, and the philosophy of existence, which regards existence as real behind the illusion of becoming, are, so to speak, polar opposites.”

“[S]he is the prim, androgynous-sounding twin. . . . Her polar opposite, Abigail is the plump, lusty twin.”

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