Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Opposite"

A: To take up → to occupy → three doors occupy (take the space) of the wall, except for one small space, which is occupied (taken up) by the table.

The writer uses "occupy" and "take up" in the sentence in order to avoid repetitions. They are synonyms.

A: So - you have learned
1) about the word Opposite!
and
2)what happens when there is a ton of extra hissing noises on an audio tape
that obscure
being able to hear the English words cleanly and correctly!

A: It means:
"The opposite of this is true for closely related languages that are almost counted as different dialects"

A: "Yet" is used the same as "but" would be here, as a coordinating conjunction.
"○○ your brilliant but intimidating mother."
The mother is intimidating, but also brilliant.

Hope that helps.

A: Yes, exactly! Even if that's not the way it is in reality (sometimes an ad can take up two pages) that's the image you're supposed to get when you think of "opposite".

A: That city is too far away to drive.
I live far from my parents.
That town is not far from mine. (it’s close to mine)
I like to travel far and wide.

A: @ZY_Yunbao It's a bit more blunt than saying "fictional", but yes

A: I'm opposite of my mom

A: The opposite of happy is sad.
He is very cheerful, while she is the complete opposite, being rather grumpy.

A: We are on opposite teams.

You did the opposite of what I expected.

"Good" is the opposite of "bad."

A: We don't say "to the opposite way/direction".

A: “When he saw me coming” in this sentence makes me think that your arrival is the thing that caused him to go in the opposite direction. “As he saw me coming” makes me think that you coming was not the cause of his action. Instead, you coming and him leaving happened at the same time but not with one causing the other to happen

A: I'm finding it difficult to think of examples that don't work with both. I think it may be safer to refer you to this page: http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/opposite

A: There isn't much of a difference and in most cases both will work. I can't at the moment think of an example where you would need to use specifiaclly one or the other

A: The opposite is something like this, light is the opposite of dark
Or
Soft is the opposite of hard
Against is more like:
Sally was against Sam's opinion.
Or
Max was going against his mothers commands.

A: In context I would say the opposite of fool proof is risky. So if a plan was considered fool proof and then circumstances changed where things could go wrong, your plan would now be risky, instead of fool proof.

Fail safe would imply that all outcomes have been foreseen and there are preventative measures in place should something occur. So the opposite might be flawed or uncertain. I don’t know that you really use an opposite expression for fail safe because of the way it’s used. You just wouldn’t use the term.

I hope that made sense!

A: yes. Extend means to make something larger/longer

So you would use straighten if you want something that is bend to be straight.

A: Hm well couch potato usually refers to someone who is lazy, so the opposite would be someone who is active or motivated. But we don't actually have a word for it.

A: almost none of....almost none of the students passed. Almost none of my friends are happy.

A: @ahmed_Otsutsuki pick up the phone, take a call, answer a call, receive a call. Opposites are Drop the call, end the call, hangup.

A: It depends on context.

Smooth, soft, squishy are all possibilities :)

A:

- flimsy
- unstable

A:

loud = ordinary
colorful = simple
or
shabby

A:

Demotion

A: "Meaninglessness,purposelessness
emptiness,worthlessness
insignificance, lack of meaning
irrelevance, insignificancy
unimportance, inconsequence"these are the words that are antonyms of gist.