exact opposite
noun
: the complete opposite
I realize now that I have tried to make my work the exact opposite of my father's.
He used to be romantic, but now he's the exact opposite.
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In her letter to the CDFW, Hahn said the exact opposite is true.
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Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
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Yet in today’s ideologically bifurcated society, the exact opposite is now true.
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The exact opposite of Greg Roman.
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Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 31 Jan. 2026
In the end, the public voted via snail mail for a person who embodied perhaps the exact opposite of both — Miskel Spillman, an elderly widow whose first plane ride ever brought her to New York City to stand beside her fellow finalists.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Yet in today’s ideologically bifurcated society, the exact opposite is now true.
—Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
The exact opposite of Greg Roman.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
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“Exact opposite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exact%20opposite. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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