antithetic
- adjective
- /ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪk/
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antitético
- Kasemann softened the tension by distinguishing between antithetic and dialectic modes.
- antithetic doublets
Examples
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The artist used antithetic colors in his painting to emphasize the conflict between light and dark.
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ANTITHETIC DOUBLET: a word-pair or short phrase-pair of opposed terms, usually coordinated by and or or (cf. pleonastic, range, and simple doublets).
Academic text (1997) -
But in some sense the intentions were not the same and even they were antithetic if you like.
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Thus, the Dresden painting contains many motifs that recur throughout Bles's repertoire, arranged in an antithetic schema, the organizing principle of many of his landscapes.
Academic text (2006) -
"Hawthorne's antithetic doublets, for example, often are comprised of theological terms and so give us a sense of the dualistic moral universe believed in by the Puritans."
Academic text (1997) -
Whatever hope he might have had of bedrock solidity had long since been given an antithetic spin, made to comply with and to confirm or anticipate (or so it seemed in retrospect) the sense of anticlimactic futurity we've been under since getting here.
Fiction book (1997) -
Wages and working conditions in the two companies were antithetic, creating a sharp contrast in employee satisfaction.
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Her views on the issue were antithetic to mine, leading to a passionate debate during the meeting.
Synonyms
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1.0
Completely different in nature or direction
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4.5
Opposed to something, often going against the facts
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6.1
Showing ideas or statements that do not agree and cannot both be true
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8.4
Directly opposed in beliefs or purpose
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4.2
Having ideas, facts, or feelings that do not agree with each other
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6.6
Showing disagreement or resistance to someone with power
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7.1
Colors, opinions, or sounds that do not match and seem to clash
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3.5
Against something or someone in opinion and action
Involving a conflict between two ideas or rules
Often disagreeing with others on purpose to be difficult
Showing a clear difference between two ideas
How Opposed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Antithetic comes from Greek parts anti- meaning 'against' and thetic from a root meaning 'to place', the same root you see in thesis. So antithetic literally means 'placed against', which is why it describes things that are directly opposed or cannot go together.