The word "diametric" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective which means exactly opposite or completely different. Example sentence: The two sides had diametric views on the issue.
Marios Schwab had shirt dresses with sexy, diametric hemlines; Christopher Raeburn did a 90s rave take, with a drawstring belt borrowed from the parka.
As for Andy, he's really the diametric opposite of Chauncey Gardiner, the dimwitted Peter Sellers character in Being There, whose platitudes about gardening and the weather are hung upon by those seeking insights into the economy.
The Arabs employed similar instruments with diametric sight rules, or alidades, and it is likely that those made and used in the 12th century by Moors in Spain were the prototypes of all later European armillary spheres.
While unity is given in Christ, two diametric forces appear in the history of the church.
That perennial habit of clubs bringing in the diametric opposite of what they have just discarded then led City to the door of Pellegrini, a dour, colourless man whose side is built around the best of the players Mancini left behind.
This film takes the diametric opposite view, accusing Russia of a long-held plot to destroy naive and innocent Georgia, in the process downplaying Georgia's attack and Ossetian casualties.
It's not on the same level, but I can't help but ally that with the work of designer Anya Hindmarch: politically Westwood's diametric opposite (she has signed photographs of Margaret Thatcher in her office; Westwood once dragged up as Maggie on an "April Fool" cover of Tatler), but with designs that also questions that status quo.
The media's obsession with quantitative deduction overlooks the abstractness, the magic, of two superstars whose very interpretation of the art – Ronaldo, the razor-edge machine of rationale, and Messi, the aesthetic magician of chaos – is framed in classically diametric opposites.
Vivienne Westwood It's telling that Juergen Teller can photograph two instantly recognisable yet utterly different advertising campaigns, for two designers – Vivienne Westwood and Sonia Rykiel – whose aesthetics are diametric opposites.
Darwinism understood as a process that favours the strong and successful and eliminates the weak and failing has been used to justify alternative and, in some respects, quite diametric economic theories (see economics).
For their test run in Croatia, they had in mind the diametric opposite of the aims of most tourists: they wanted to be wherever the locals were not.
