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   antithetical

   /ˌantɪˈθɛtɪkl/

   adjective

   • 1. directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible: "people whose religious beliefs are antithetical to mine"
   • 2. connected with, containing, or using the rhetorical device of antithesis: "when praising the government, Pyrocles invokes the familiar oxymoronic and antithetical mode"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in antithetical (sense 2)): from Greek antithetikos, from antithetos ‘placed in opposition’, from antitithenai ‘set against’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. antithetic adjective
   • 2. antithetically adverb

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