antithetical
[an-tuh-thet-i-kuh l]
adjective
of the nature of or involving antithesis.
directly opposed or contrasted; opposite.
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conflicting, antithetical, incompatible, contrary, inconsistent, paradoxical, contrasting, disparate, distinct, distinctive, peculiar, offbeat, diverse, various, particular, distant, other, divergent, counter, reverse
Also Archaic, an·ti·thet·ic.
Origin of antithetical
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Examples from the Web for antithetic
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From this point of view, there is properly no antithetic of pure reason.
The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
But the heresy was as incoherent and as credulous as the antithetic orthodoxy.
The Promise Of American LifeHerbert David Croly
However serious or painful the topic, Heine could enliven it by his clever Jewish antithetic wit.
Wagner as I Knew HimFerdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger
To one familiar with Parisian ways these antithetic notices promised a beautiful scrimmage.
Paris and the Social RevolutionAlvan Francis Sanborn
It is connected with and founded upon the antithetic assertion of the eternity of Iahvah.
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