antithesisnoun [ C ]
uk/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/us/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/plural antitheses uk/-siːz/usthe exact opposite:
She is slim and shy - the very antithesis of her sister.
He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.
a contrast between two things:
Thanks to the collapse of communism the political antithesis between Left and Right is less important.
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Opposites
- antonym
- anything
- anything but idiom
- be like chalk and cheese idiom
- chalk
- contrary
- countervailing
- dichotomous
- dichotomy
- extreme
- flip side
- inversion
- non-
- opposed
- opposite
- or otherwise idiom
- otherwise
- polarity
- pole
- reverse
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Comparing and contrasting
antithetical
adjective uk/ˌæn.tɪˈθet.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌæn.t̬əˈθet̬.ɪ.kəl/also antithetic, formal
antithetical views