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antipodean

UK /ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/adjective, noun

antipodean is an adjective meaning “Diametrically opposed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-O-D-E-A-N and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does antipodean mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Diametrically opposed.

  2. 2

    Relating to the antipodes, or situated at opposite sides of the Earth.

  3. 3

    informalOf, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand.

noun

  1. 1

    An inhabitant of the antipodes.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce antipodean?

  • UK /ænˌtɪp.əˈdi.ən/

Antipodean has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-antipodean.ogg, En-us-antipodean.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of antipodean

  • antipodeans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antipodean?

Antipodean appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Antipodean in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanantipodisch (situated at opposite sides of the Earth), Antipode, Gegenfüßler (inhabitant of the antipodes)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.