Top 40 Opposite Word Sayings

#1. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?

Hannah Moskowitz

Opposite Word Sayings #476
#2. Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

Elie Wiesel

Opposite Word Sayings #29342
#3. Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

Frederick Lenz

Opposite Word Sayings #56269
#4. I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

Robert Piper

Opposite Word Sayings #151229
#5. Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.

John Ashbery

Opposite Word Sayings #159674
#6. Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Honore De Balzac

Opposite Word Sayings #183032
#7. God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.

Billy Graham

Opposite Word Sayings #229552
#8. Boots, I told you that I'd never walk away again. I'm a man of my word, he says sternly. Clearly insinuating that I'm the opposite of that.

Jillian Dodd

Opposite Word Sayings #239563
#9. Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.

Seymour Papert

Opposite Word Sayings #250904
#10. I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

Vincent De Paul

Opposite Word Sayings #346328
#11. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself.

George Orwell

Opposite Word Sayings #362728
#12. Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch ... you are held

Diana Vreeland

Opposite Word Sayings #363260
#13. For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Malcolm Gladwell

Opposite Word Sayings #466867
#14. Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan

Opposite Word Sayings #511993
#15. Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Opposite Word Sayings #534387
#16. The word emptiness comes a cross as a word that means dealing with a large void or insecurity within. When the opposite is true. Being in touch with emptiness means being in touch with your inner existence.

Matthew Donnelly

Opposite Word Sayings #581799
#17. Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex's vocabulary down to one word.

Tessa Bailey

Opposite Word Sayings #688745
#18. We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word.

Joyce Meyer

Opposite Word Sayings #724278
#19. The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

Napoleon Hill

Opposite Word Sayings #732467
#20. There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.

R.J. Palacio

Opposite Word Sayings #736837
#21. For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.

Roberto Bolano

Opposite Word Sayings #789487
#22. Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.

Mike Bond

Opposite Word Sayings #792271
#23. At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

Andre Breton

Opposite Word Sayings #863430
#24. There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like an echo, or rather the opposite of an echo. An echo came afterwards, but was there a word for what came before?

Kate Atkinson

Opposite Word Sayings #947137
#25. Where the hell have you been?" said Meryl, when I caught up with her in the Street of Inns at about three in the morning. "Where did you get that huge bag of money?" I dumped it on the pavement, sick of hefting the weight around. "Is there a word for the exact opposite of a mugging?

Anonymous

Opposite Word Sayings #967430
#26. I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention.

Charles Dickens

Opposite Word Sayings #1010664
#27. Without another word, he walked out. Gennie waited until she heard his footsteps on the stairs before she pressed a hand to her stomach. The next time she saw a light in the dark, she told herself, she'd run like hell in the opposite direction.

Nora Roberts

Opposite Word Sayings #1110999
#28. It's funny how there's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. what word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? underprotective? neglectful? self-involved? lame? all of the above. olivia's family

R.J. Palacio

Opposite Word Sayings #1115639
#29. When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Nick Offerman

Opposite Word Sayings #1225963
#30. There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

Marcel Proust

Opposite Word Sayings #1260695
#31. Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

Kanye West

Opposite Word Sayings #1289024
#32. Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

Bertrand Russell

Opposite Word Sayings #1338472
#33. If you cry 'Forward' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

Anton Chekhov

Opposite Word Sayings #1420572
#34. I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.
Nida

Faiqa Mansab

Opposite Word Sayings #1436356
#35. I'm not sure I have the words to describe that moment but if there's a word that means the exact opposite of "ladylike", that would be a good start.

Jenny Lawson

Opposite Word Sayings #1437251
#36. We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

Marina Keegan

Opposite Word Sayings #1467773
#37. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

John Green

Opposite Word Sayings #1593436
#38. My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Stephenie Meyer

Opposite Word Sayings #1606929
#39. A lover of men is very nearly the opposite of a philanthropist; indeed the pedantry of the Greek word carries something like a satire on itself. A philanthropist may be said to love anthropoids. But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.

G.K. Chesterton

Opposite Word Sayings #1652968
#40. People in Africa have a well-deserved reputation for being happy. This may explain why: there is no word in Swahili for "sarcasm" therefore Africans have no concept of saying something and having it mean a playfully snide version of the opposite.

Will Bowen

Opposite Word Sayings #1764896

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