antithetic
Speech parts
1. antithetic - Noun
2. antithetic - Adjective
3. antithetic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Alt. of Antithetical
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practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs
hope is antithetic to despair
An example of antithetic parallelism: * The LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
T.S. Eliot, The Rock (London: Faber and Faber, 1934), 44. The 'new evangels' The Rock, 44 of totalitarianism are presented as antithetic to the spirit of Christianity.