counterpole

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noun

The exact opposite.

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polar opposite
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Meanings

nouncounterpole (plural counterpoles)

plural counterpoles

  1. The exact opposite.

    It is enough to say, that it [German prose] offers the counterpole to the French style.

    1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 191

    Synonyms: polar opposite

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe exact opposite.

Similar
polar opposite

Origin

From counter- + pole.

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Chicago

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