What is another word for diametrically opposed?

Pronunciation: [dˌa͡ɪəmˈɛtɹɪkli əpˈə͡ʊzd] (IPA)

Diametrically opposed is a phrase that describes two opposing views, ideas or concepts that are completely opposite. There are numerous synonyms for the term diametrically opposed. A few alternatives include Total opposite, Directly opposite, Polar opposite, Antithesis, Contrary, Contradictory, Conflicting, Irreconcilable, Incompatible, and Antipodal. These synonyms highlight how the two things in question are not just different but represent extremes that are completely opposite. Examples of diametrically opposed concepts include good and evil, black and white, love and hate, etc. The use of synonyms helps add variety to the language while still retaining the original meaning.

What are the hypernyms for Diametrically opposed?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for diametrically opposed?

Diametrically opposed refers to two things that are completely opposite or contrary to each other. Some antonyms which can be used in place of this term are harmonious, similar, compatible, congruous, analogous, coherent, consistent, and cohesive. Harmonious means things that work together in sync while similar refers to things that are alike in nature. Compatible means things that can exist together without conflicting with each other while congruous means that two things are in agreement with each other. Analogous means that two things are similar but not identical. Consistent means something that follows the same pattern or course while cohesive means something that is united or consistent.

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Famous quotes with Diametrically opposed

  • I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
    J. Michael Straczynski
  • The dissensions over the use of forcearise from two diametrically opposed points of view. One is at bottom anarchistic, and looks upon all social evils as the result of individual wrong-doing. The other is at bottom socialistic, and looks upon all social evils as in the main the result of economic and social law.
    Robert Hunter (author)
  • We seek to terrorize them, as they seek to terrorize us. As the anarchist believes that oppression may be ended by the murder of the oppressor, so society cherishes the thought that anarchism may be ended by the murder of the anarchist.can any man doubt that both are equally futile and senselessstupid and abortive,they lead to results diametrically opposed to the ends sought.
    Robert Hunter (author)
  • Rousseau, though holding views diametrically opposed to Luther's as to the of man, finally strengthened his hand by his estimate of man's mind. Luther believed in the utter moral wretchedness of man, but Rousseau believed not only in man's goodness on the plane of character but he also was convinced (like Luther) that man is by nature intelligent. The "democrats" of the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries deducted from Luther's and Rousseau's joint declaration that man is intelligent (either by nature or by an inner light) the further conclusion that the sum total of all minds must be perfection itself.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Caesar did not confine himself to helping the debtor for the moment; he did what as legislator he could, permanently to keep down the fearful omnipotence of capital. First of all the great legal maxim was proclaimed, that freedom is not a possession commensurable with property, but an eternal right of man, of which the state is entitled judicially to deprive the criminal alone, not the debtor. It was Caesar, who, perhaps stimulated in this case also by the more humane Egyptian and Greek legislation, especially that of Solon,(68) introduced this principle--diametrically opposed to the maxims of the earlier ordinances as to bankruptcy-- into the common law, where it has since retained its place undisputed. According to Roman law the debtor unable to pay became the serf of his creditor.(69) The Poetelian law no doubt had allowed a debtor, who had become unable to pay only through temporary embarrassments, not through genuine insolvency, to save his personal freedom by the cession of his property;(70) nevertheless for the really insolvent that principle of law, though doubtless modified in secondary points, had been in substance retained unaltered for five hundred years; a direct recourse to the debtor's estate only occurred exceptionally, when the debtor had died or had forfeited his burgess-rights or could not be found. It was Caesar who first gave an insolvent the right--on which our modern bankruptcy regulations are based-- of formally ceding his estate to his creditors, whether it might suffice to satisfy them or not, so as to save at all events his personal freedom although with diminished honorary and political rights, and to begin a new financial existence, in which he could only be sued on account of claims proceeding from the earlier period and not protected in the liquidation, if he could pay them without renewed financial ruin.
    Theodor Mommsen

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