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OPPOSITE
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
O
1
P
3
P
3
O
1
S
1
I
1
T
1
E
1
Σ
12
Definitions
Adverb
- directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table"
Adjective
- of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves"
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions"
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade
- the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"
- being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles"
- moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions"
Noun
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word OPPOSITE
Yes, OPPOSITE is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 12 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
OPPOSITE is a 8-letter word. It contains 4 vowels and 4 consonants.