Antonyms for poles apart


Grammar : Adj, adv, noun
Spell : pohl
Phonetic Transcription : poÊŠl


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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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