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Antonyms for poles apart
Grammar : Adj, adv, noun |
Spell : pohl |
Phonetic Transcription : poʊl |
- acceptance
- accord
- agreeing
- agreement
- alike
- ambiguous
- appropriate
- approval
- authorization
- balanced
- combined
- common
- commonplace
- compatible
- concurrence
- conforming
- conformity
- connected
- consistent
- consonant
- conventional
- convergent
- correspondent
- endorsement
- equal
- even
- fitting
- fuzzy
- general
- harmonious
- harmony
- hazy
- homogeneous
- identical
- indefinite
- indistinct
- joined
- level
- like
- loving
- matched
- normal
- obscure
- ordinary
- orthodoxy
- peace
- proper
- ratification
- regular
- related
- resembling
- same
- sanction
- similar
- standard
- suitable
- suited
- together
- undefined
- unified
- uniform
- unimportant
- united
- usual
- vague
- well-matched
Definition of poles apart
Origin :- "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."
- "I saw her eat.""No very unnatural occurrence I should think.""But she ate an onion!""Right my boy, right, never marry a woman who would touch an onion with a ten foot pole."["The Collegian," University of Virginia, 1839]
- As in incompatible : adj antagonistic, contradictory
- As in unequal : adj different
- As in unlike : adj different
- As in different : adj dissimilar, unlike
- As in disparate : adj at odds, different
- As in dissimilar : adj not alike; not capable of comparison
- As in distinct : adj different; unconnected
- As in distinctive : adj different, unique
- As in divergent : adj differing
- As in antithetical : adj reverse
- As in differently : adv in another way; otherwise
- As in dissent : noun disagreement, disapproval
- Save for chance, they would remain always as the poles apart.
- Extract from : « The Feasts of Autolycus » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- In language and religion, by habits and associations, they were poles apart from each other.
- Extract from : « The Political Future of India » by Lajpat Rai
- In his presence she felt herself transported to another atmosphere, poles apart from the one she had just left.
- Extract from : « Ragna » by Anna Miller Costantini
- In principles and tactics they were poles apart, and the bitterness between them was at fever heat.
- Extract from : « Violence and the Labor Movement » by Robert Hunter
- In England those who in ecclesiastical matters were poles apart united in a plea for economic conservatism.
- Extract from : « The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century » by Richard Henry Tawney
- Longer terms of peace gave opportunity for development on lines that were as poles apart.
- Extract from : « Merchantmen-at-Arms » by David W. Bone
- He has come under a control that differs as poles apart from the free days of 'fleeting' and 'single boating.'
- Extract from : « Merchantmen-at-Arms » by David W. Bone
- "What a person imagines he hears, and what the speaker has really implied, may be poles apart," he said.
- Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
Synonyms for poles apart
- a far cry from
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abnormally
- adverse
- adversely
- altered
- anomalous
- antagonistically
- antipathetic
- antipodal
- antithetic
- antithetical
- antithetically
- antonymous
- apples and oranges
- asymmetrically
- at odds
- at variance
- atypical
- bone
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- changed
- characteristic
- clashing
- clinker
- colorful
- conflict
- conflicting
- conflictingly
- contention
- contradictorily
- contradictory
- contradistinct
- contradistinctive
- contrarily
- contrary
- contrasted
- contrasting
- contrastingly
- contrastive
- contrastively
- converse
- cool
- counter
- denial
- detached
- deviating
- diacritic
- diagnostic
- difference
- different
- differential
- differing
- disaccord
- disagreeing
- discord
- discordant
- discordantly
- discrepant
- discrete
- disharmonious
- disparate
- disparately
- dissension
- dissidence
- dissimilar
- dissimilarly
- dissonant
- distant
- distinct
- distinctive
- distinctively
- distinguishing
- disunited
- disunity
- divergent
- divergently
- diverging
- divers
- diverse
- diversely
- especial
- excellent
- extraordinary
- factional
- factious
- far cry
- far cry from
- flak
- gnarly
- hassle
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- heterogeneous
- hostile
- hostilely
- idiosyncratic
- in a different manner
- inadmissible
- inappropriate
- incoherent
- incommensurable
- incommensurate
- incomparable
- incompatible
- incompatibly
- inconformable
- incongruous
- incongruously
- inconsistent
- inconsonant
- inconstant
- individual
- individually
- inverse
- irreconcilable
- irregular
- jarring
- like night and day
- march to a different drummer
- marching to a different drummer
- misbelief
- mismatched
- mismated
- negatively
- night and day
- nonagreement
- nonconcurrence
- nonconformably
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nope
- not alike
- not similar
- not uniform
- objection
- odd
- off-key
- offbeat
- on the contrary
- on the other hand
- opposed
- opposite
- oppositely
- opposition
- original
- other
- otherwise
- outstanding
- particular
- peculiar
- perfect
- polarized
- poles apart
- proper
- protest
- refusal
- resistance
- schism
- separate
- separated
- separately
- several
- single
- singular
- sole
- sour note
- spat
- special
- specific
- split
- strife
- superior
- typical
- unadapted
- unalike
- unassociated
- unattached
- uncommon
- uncongenial
- unequal
- unequivalent
- uneven
- unique
- uniquely
- unlike
- unmatched
- unnatural
- unorthodoxly
- unorthodoxy
- unreal
- unrelated
- unsimilar
- unsuitable
- unsuited
- untypical
- unusually
- variable
- variance
- variant
- various
- variously
- varying
- vice versa
- warring
- weird
- whale of difference
- wicked
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