opposit

opposit is the archaic form of opposite.

Meaning of opposite

opposite (not comparable)

Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
Facing in the other direction.
- They were moving in opposite directions.
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- He is attracted to the opposite sex.
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; antagonistic.
- Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem.1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
Synonyms:

polar

opposit (third-person singular simple present opposits, present participle oppositing, simple past and past participle opposited)

Noun
plural	opposits
Verb
third-person singular present	opposits
present participle	oppositing
past participle	opposited
past	opposited

From Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”).

What does opposit mean?: Opposit means to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny.
What is opposit the archaic form of?: Opposit is the archaic form of opposite.
What part of speech is opposit?: Opposit is a verb.
What is the past tense of opposit?: The past tense of opposit is opposited.

Adapted from Wiktionary: opposit (page history and authors); opposite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “opposit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/opposit. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.