Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a diametrical direction; directly; in an extreme degree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a diametrical manner; directly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Separated by a
diameter , on exactly theopposite side. Frequently used in the phrase diametrically opposed meaning absolutely inopposition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb as from opposite ends of a diameter
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Examples
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But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals.
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The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model.
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The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny.
VERWOERD'S GRIM PLOT 1959
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This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy.
Archive 2007-11-25 2007
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This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy.
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As so many of you do, you picked a username diametrically opposed to who you really are.
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias Jeff Poor 2010
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And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
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And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
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And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
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And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship.
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