a. [irreg. f. ANTIPODE-S + -AN; perh. after European, but not analogous, a better form being the obs. ANTIPODIAN.]
1. Of or pertaining to the opposite side of the world; esp. Australasian.
1861. Sala, Twice round Clock, 35. Antipodean legislators have a refreshment room they call ‘Bellamy’s.’
1877. Heath, Fern W., Introd. 4. The antipodean range of the Fern World.
2. humorously, Having everything upside down.
1852. Dickens, Bleak Ho. (1853), 621. A kind of Antipodean lumber room, full of old chairs and tables, upside down.
3. fig. Of or pertaining to direct opposition; diametrically opposed (to).
1651. Biggs, New Disp., Summ. All the medicines of the shops in Antipodæan position to our bodies.
1841. Hor. Smith, Moneyed Man, I. ii. 32. We were Antipodean in all our tastes.
1881. Scribner’s Monthly, XXII. 97/2. The writer who of all writers in our own day is most antipodean to Mr. Carlyle.
