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antithetical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪkəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin antitheticus + -al.

Meanings

  1. Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
    • Yet as Mr. Altman raised OpenAI’s profile, some board members worried that ChatGPT’s success was antithetical to creating safe A.I., two people familiar with their thinking said. 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work. 2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries:
    • His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community.
    • This is precisely why insistence on relative truth is antithetical to critical thinking.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most antithetical Degree=Sup lexicographic
more antithetical Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

antitheticality · antitheticalness

Translations (21)

nl in tegenspraak met (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · nl contradictorisch (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · fr antithétique (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · grc ἀντιθετικός (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · ga fritéiseach (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · sv antitetisk (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · de antithetisch (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hi विप्रतिषेधात्मक (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · cy gwrthgyferbyniol (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · ru антитетический (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hu ellentétben áll (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hi प्रतिपक्षी (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hi प्रतिपक्षात्मक (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hu ellentmond (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · es antitético (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · ro antitetic (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · ca antitètic (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · hu ellentétes (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · it antitetico (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · pl antytetyczny (pertaining to or being an antithesis) · pt antitético (pertaining to or being an antithesis)