Reverse
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having the order of its constituents moved backwards in time or space. Causing movement in the opposite direction. to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The opposite of front. The opposite of forward. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction. To turn something inside out or upside down. To transpose the positions of two things. To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite. To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction. To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa. To place a set of points in the reverse position to move from the normal position to the reverse position
Example sentence: In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.
Opposite
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: located directly across from something else, or from each otherfacing in the other directionof either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: in an opposite position
Part of speech: preposition
Definition: facing, or across fromin a complementary role to
Part of speech: noun
Definition: something opposite or contrary to anotheran opponentan antonyman additive inverse
Example sentence: The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.