Definition of "diametrically" []

• Separated by a diameter, on exactly the opposite side. Frequently used in the phrase diametrically opposed meaning absolutely in opposition. (adverb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model."
• "But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals."
• "The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny."