Meanings
prepositional phrase
- In direct opposition.
Mark Twain was not a humourist in the sense that Lamb was — the two were at antipodes.
1910, The Bookman, volume 31, page 3671 more example
In religion their thoughts ran in widely different channels, and in politics they were at antipodes.
1881, Lyman L. Palmer, History of Napa and Lake Counties
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