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[vee-zuh-vee; Fr. vee-za-vee] 
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| Main Entry: |
vis-à-vis
[vee-zuh-vee; Fr. vee-za-vee]
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| Part of Speech: | adverb/preposition |
| Definition: | opposite |
| Synonyms: | eyeball to eyeball, face-to-face, facing, frontal |
| Main Entry: | opposite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlike, conflicting; completely different |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, contradictory, contrapositive, contrary, contrasted, corresponding, counter, crosswise, diametric, diametrically opposed, different, differing, dissimilar, diverse, facing, flip-side, fronting, hostile, inconsistent, independent, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, obverse, opposed, ornery*, paradoxical, polar, repugnant, retrograde, reverse, reversed, separate, unalike, unconnected, unrelated, unsimilar, violative, vis-á-vis |
| Notes: | contrary describes something that contradicts a proposition, converse is used when the elements of a proposition are reversed, opposite pertains to that which is diametrically opposed to a proposition, and reverse can mean each of those |
| Antonyms: | compatible, like, similar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | toward/towards |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | on the way to; near |
| Synonyms: | against, almost, approaching, close to, coming up, contra, en route, facing, for, fronting, headed for, in relation to, in the direction of, in the vicinity, just before, moving, nearing, nearly, not quite, on the road to, over against, pointing to, proceeding, shortly before, to, via, vis-à-vis |
| Main Entry: | face to face |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confronting |
| Synonyms: | eye to eye, facing, man-to-man, one-on-one, person to person, vis-à-vis, woman-to-woman |
| Main Entry: | love seat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small sofa |
| Synonyms: | courting chair, tete-a-tete, two-seater, vis-à-vis |
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