ANTITHETICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antithetical mean? 

• ANTITHETICAL (adjective)
  The adjective ANTITHETICAL has 1 sense:

1. sharply contrasted in character or purpose

  Familiarity information: ANTITHETICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTITHETICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sharply contrasted in character or purpose

Synonyms:

antithetic; antithetical

Context example:

hope is antithetic to despair

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

Derivation:

antithesis (exact opposite)

 Context examples 

On the screen of his imagination he saw himself and this sweet and beautiful girl, facing each other and conversing in good English, in a room of books and paintings and tone and culture, and all illuminated by a bright light of steadfast brilliance; while ranged about and fading away to the remote edges of the screen were antithetical scenes, each scene a picture, and he the onlooker, free to look at will upon what he wished.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)