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poles apart

poles apart adjective: totally opposite.

Adjective

poles apart (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Totally opposite.
    • She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
    • As regards distance there is little to choose between them and until the recent diversions there was a marked similarity in their train services; but the resemblance ends there and in character the two lines are poles apart.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96
    Synonyms:
    worlds apart

poles apart meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

poles apart in Bengali

সম্পূর্ণ বিপরীত

poles apart in Malayalam

directly opposed, completely different, antithetical
വിരുദ്ധധ്രുവങ്ങളായ, കടകവിരുദ്ധമായ, പ്രതിഘ, വിപരീതമായ, വിരുദ്ധമായ, ഭിന്നാഭിപ്രായമുള്ള

Examples of poles apart in a sentence

  • In a purely spiritual sense, the two are poles apart and without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.1993, Aryeh Kaplan, Yaakov Elman, Israel ben Gedaliah Lipschutz, Immortality, resurrection, and the age of the universe: a kabbalistic...
  • At this level, science and magic are poles apart and yet they are the same.2001, Karl Figlio, Psychoanalysis, science and masculinity, page 213:

Synonyms of poles apart

Questions about poles apart

What does poles apart mean?
Poles apart means totally opposite.
What is poles apart in Bengali?
Poles apart in Bengali is সম্পূর্ণ বিপরীত. See Poles apart meaning in Bengali.
How do you use poles apart in a sentence?
In a purely spiritual sense, the two are poles apart and without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.
What part of speech is poles apart?
Poles apart is an adjective.

Words near poles apart in the dictionary

  1. poler
  2. polerovirus
  3. poleroviruses
  4. polers
  5. poles
  6. poles apart
  7. poles of cold
  8. polescreen
  9. polescreens
  10. Poleshuk
  11. Poleshuki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poles apart (page history and authors); poles apart (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poles apart (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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