The phrase "are not opposite" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing concepts, ideas, or things that do not contradict or negate each other.
Example: "Although they may seem different, love and hate are not opposite emotions; they can coexist in complex ways."
Alternatives: "are not contradictory" or "do not oppose each other".
An alternative strategy to reduce the risk of the initiation of landslides between widely spaced rows is to (i) off-set every second 'within-row' tree such that trees in adjacent rows are not opposite each other; or (ii) align rows at right angles to the travel path of landslide debris, that is, along contour.
Privacy and security are not opposite ends of a spectrum in an interconnected and insecure world.
Love and violence are not synonymous; they are not opposite each other.
The fact that no competition concept falls with the range 0<γ<1 and, as argued elsewhere [60], γ = 1 is itself problematic strongly suggests that these two types of competition are not opposite ends of the same spectrum, but are fundamentally different types of competition processes that can both operate concurrently, though on different time scales.
Therefore, PTG and posttraumatic stress are not opposite ends of a continuum; instead, they exist on separate dimensions that are related through the level of distress experienced.
Our qualitative data suggested that parents identified both positive and negative outcomes for allowing their child to view TV [ 6], suggesting that they are not opposite ends of the same construct, but two separate constructs.
The two are not opposites.
The two writers are not opposites, even for Seligman.
Cultural fantasy and real history are not opposites.
The beautiful and the ugly are not opposites, but aspects of the same thing.
Nature and culture, for Walcott, are not opposites but complements, each summoning up the memory of the other.
