poles apart

as inincompatible
as inunequal
as inunlike
as indifferent
as indisparate
as indissimilar
as indistinct
as indistinctive
as indivergent
as inantithetical
as indifferently
as indissent

Synonyms for poles apart

adj antagonistic, contradictory

Antonyms for poles apart

dissimilar

adjective. not alike; not capable of comparison

Word Origin & History

"stake," late Old English pal "stake, pole, post," a general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon pal "stake," Middle Dutch pael, Dutch paal, Old High German pfal, Old Norse pall) from Latin palus "stake" (see pale (n.)).

Racing sense of "inside fence surrounding a course" is from 1851; pole position in auto racing attested from 1904. A ten-foot pole as a metaphoric measure of something one would not touch something (or someone) else with is by 1839, American English. The ten-foot pole was a common tool used to set stakes for fences, etc., and the phrase "Can't touch de bottom with a ten foot pole" is in the popular old minstrel show song "Camptown Races."

Example Sentences for poles apart

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

In language and religion, by habits and associations, they were poles apart from each other.

In his presence she felt herself transported to another atmosphere, poles apart from the one she had just left.

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

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

Longer terms of peace gave opportunity for development on lines that were as poles apart.

He has come under a control that differs as poles apart from the free days of 'fleeting' and 'single boating.'

"What a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart," he said.

poles apart

Synonyms for poles apart

Antonyms for poles apart

More words related to poles apart

antithetical

different

differently

disparate

dissent

dissimilar