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poles apart

adjective as in antithetical

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Save for chance, they would remain always as the poles apart.

In principles and tactics they were poles apart, and the bitterness between them was at fever heat.

They stood poles apart, and everyone realized that no useful purpose would be served in trying to bring them together again.

In England those who in ecclesiastical matters were poles apart united in a plea for economic conservatism.

It is in a territory poles apart from Mr. Kipling's that the main stream of romantic poetry flows.

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On this page you'll find 478 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to poles apart, such as: contradictory, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, and inverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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