Opposites are concepts, actions, or characteristics that are considered completely different, or in the case of actions would do the reverse and/or undo the other.
Typical opposites are good/bad, stop/go, short/long, hero/villain, or light/heavy. Words that mean the opposite of each other, or nearly so, are antonyms.
Regarding people, "opposites" are those who do not share lifestyles, backgrounds, tendencies, opinions, and/or avocations. In relationships, the observation that "opposites attract" may be due the complementary natures of a pair, or to either's curiosity about activities that they have never tried.
There aren't opposites of every word. You could try "comfortable," which is the opposite in one way... or "at home," which is opposite in another way. Perhaps "functional" would work too, if you are talking about an arm being dislocated... it doesn't cover the opposite of everything that is going on there, but it covers part of it. .... It really depends on what you mean. When you say "dislocated," do you mean painful and out of place? If so, you can come up with opposites for those things. If you mean something else, then work on words that are opposites of whatever that is.
+ and - are opposites for example 6 and -6 are opposites
Normally the opposite is early.(where late is used to mean deceased, the opposite is alive)
antonyms
The words identical and fraternal are the opposites. These opposites can be compared to puppies and kittens or black and white for example.
The answer depends on what is meant by "their opposites". If you mean additive opposites then the set is of all non-zero integers.
If you mean the word itself, your question is an example. If you mean two opposite things, then "up and down are opposites"
It means negatives
"Opposites" cannot mean additive opposites since, by definition, their sum must be 0. So "opposites" is likely to mean multiplicative opposites. This gives the equation x + 1/x = 100 Then the two numbers are 0.010010 and 99.989999 to 6 dp.
opposites attract?
Yes, those are called antonyms. They mean the same as opposite.
-Opposites of evens. -odds can also mean the chances of something happening.
The separater to make the negative and positive numbers opposites?
no antonyms are opposites examples of opposites: * big, little * man, woman * wet, dry * rigid, flexible * shy, out-going * simple, complex * sick, healthy
There are opposites of some adverbs and adjectives. The idea of "opposites" is conceptually weak and not all words have opposites.
Yes, parallel and perpendicular are opposites.
Collapsing Opposites was created in 2002.