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Antonyms for antithetic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : an-tuh-thet-i-kuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌæn təˈθɛt ɪ kəl |
Definition of antithetic
Origin :- "containing an antithesis," c.1600, from Greek antithetikos "setting in opposition," from antithetos "placed in opposition," from antithesis (see antithesis).
- As in contradictory : adj antagonistic
- As in different : adj dissimilar, unlike
- From this point of view, there is properly no antithetic of pure reason.
- Extract from : « The Critique of Pure Reason » by Immanuel Kant
- But the heresy was as incoherent and as credulous as the antithetic orthodoxy.
- Extract from : « The Promise Of American Life » by Herbert David Croly
- However serious or painful the topic, Heine could enliven it by his clever Jewish antithetic wit.
- Extract from : « Wagner as I Knew Him » by Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger
- To one familiar with Parisian ways these antithetic notices promised a beautiful scrimmage.
- Extract from : « Paris and the Social Revolution » by Alvan Francis Sanborn
- It is connected with and founded upon the antithetic assertion of the eternity of Iahvah.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah » by C J Ball
- The body consists of two antithetic parts (antimera), and has no trace of radial structure.
- Extract from : « The Wonders of Life » by Ernst Haeckel
- The writer of Money laboured to reproduce the antithetic polish of his original.
- Extract from : « Social Transformations of the Victorian Age » by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
- While Jacobi stood in an antithetic relation to the Kantian philosophy, Fichte appears as its immediate consequence.
- Extract from : « A History of Philosophy in Epitome » by Albert Schwegler
- The reaction from this (which was a kind of nihilism or anarchy), was to declare the antithetic excess of free will.
- Extract from : « Legends of Florence » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- It is only in the vocabulary of very careless thinkers that the words truth and fiction are regarded as antithetic.
- Extract from : « Materials and Methods of Fiction » by Clayton Hamilton
Synonyms for antithetic
- a far cry from
- adverse
- against
- agin
- altered
- anti
- antipodal
- antipodean
- antithetic
- antithetical
- at odds
- at variance
- changed
- clashing
- colorful
- con
- conflicting
- contradistinct
- contradistinctive
- contrary
- contrasting
- contrastive
- converse
- counter
- counteractive
- deviating
- diametric
- differential
- discrepant
- disparate
- distant
- distinct
- distinctive
- divergent
- divers
- diverse
- incommensurable
- incomparable
- incompatible
- incongruous
- inconsistent
- individual
- irreconcilable
- like night and day
- mismatched
- mismated
- negating
- no go
- nullifying
- offbeat
- opposed
- opposing
- opposite
- ornery
- other
- otherwise
- paradoxical
- particular
- peculiar
- polar
- poles apart
- repugnant
- reverse
- single
- unalike
- unequal
- unrelated
- unsimilar
- variant
- various
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