antithetical
adjective
of the nature of or involving antithesis.
antithetically
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a word derived from
antithetical.
Example Sentences
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The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps they satisfied the starved imagination of the New Englander, whose own life was lived amid surroundings antithetically prosaic.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
That he could understand; and, of course, if the other house were antithetically opposed to the Lords, it followed that the House of Commons was not composed of noblesse.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
This designation was used by the representatives of the Adoptian Christology only after they had expressed their doctrine antithetically and developed it to a theory, and always with a certain reservation.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
