Synonyms for poles apart

Grammar : Adj, adv, noun

Spell : pohl

Phonetic Transcription : poʊl

Top 10 synonyms for poles apart

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Définition 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

Antonyms for poles apart

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