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antithetical
[ an-tuh-thet-i-kuhl ]
antithetical
/ ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪkəl /
adjective
- of the nature of antithesis
- directly contrasted
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- anti·theti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of antithetical1
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Example Sentences
Yet Anders Gravers is in fact a bona fide xenophobe whose views are antithetical to freedom.
Was Islam antithetical to American ideas of religious freedom and openness of citizenship?
Even the mere thought of calling such a man a patriot profoundly corrupts—is violently antithetical to—the idea of patriotism.
Trying to use it do so is antithetical to the achievement of peace and the two-state solution.
As if to drive their antithetical missions home, the two Newsrooms have virtually opposing styles.
Burkius rightly remarks, that שנא is antithetical to surgere, sedere, dolorum.
The writer of the letter from Bombay, signed Ormont, was a born subject for the antithetical craftsmen's tricky springes.
He is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.
This also indicates the antithetical positions which the two hold with respect to magic and counter-magic.
If man was all male principle, and woman all female principle they would not be complementary, but antithetical.
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