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Antipodean

Antipodean \An`ti*po"de*an\, a. Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

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antipodean

a. 1 diametrically opposed 2 relating to the antipodes, or situated at opposite sides of the Earth 3 (context informal English) of, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand n. An inhabitant of the antipodes.

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antipodean

adj. relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth; "antodpodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere" [syn: antipodal]

Usage examples of "antipodean".

I consider that one of the worst features of the whole black-white thing is that nobody can say: "I don't much like black people" as they might say: "I don't like the Southern Scot or the Welsh or antipodeans or the Midland English or Americans or the League of British Loyalists or The Readers' Digest.

Caley Bard was civilised under the heading of 'the total oeuvre,' Mr Hewson said, wryly and obscurely, that every man had his price, Mr Lazenby upheld a professional view: the forgery was worthless because it was based upon a lie and clerical overtones informed his antipodean delivery.

He developed antipodean-type resentment and began to speak of the reactionary conduct of pom policemen.

Armed with information provided by the broken scientist, the antipodean army created new weapons, which paralyzed the cyborgs’ neurosystems and rendered them inoper­ative.

It is at once a romantic and yet austere setting, worthy of an Antipodean Bronte novel.

This was what John Walker had taught Bideau, to think beyond Antipodean shores, think Europe and the US.

She was recovering from her own personal and form difficulties and benefited from training through the Antipodean summer.

Those evenings by the taffrail came to an imperceptible end, and the Lydia thrashed aloug through half a gale, and it grew steadily colder, even though this was the Antipodean summer.

They were leaving the Antipodean autumn behind them, and the northern spring was coming down in the track of the sun to meet them.

Argus College specialized in young women like Jane: elegant, diffident girls who studied the burial customs of Mongol women or the mating habits of rare antipodean birds.

Then, indeed, does the tuckered sylph come out in fairy form and proceed with joy under cousinly escort to the exhausted old assembly-room, fourteen heavy miles off, which, during three hundred and sixty-four days and nights of every ordinary year, is a kind of antipodean lumberroom full of old chairs and tables upside down.