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antithetical

/an-tuh-thet-i-kuhl/US // ˌæn təˈθɛt ɪ kəl //UK // (ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪkəl) //

对立的,反义的,对立面,对立面的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the nature of or involving antithesis.
    • : directly opposed or contrasted; opposite.

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Examples

  • This is antithetical to the story I’ve been told about Johns Hopkins.

  • It’s antithetical to America’s ideas and ideals, and it has fascistic markers.

  • I totally get that it’s maybe kind of antithetical to the point I’m trying to make.

  • The message they sent was antithetical to the mood of corporate America at the time.

  • Though few rituals can lay the groundwork for tackling the day like a cup of coffee can, the actual brewing process can often be messy, time consuming, and generally antithetical to easing gently into the day.

  • Yet Anders Gravers is in fact a bona fide xenophobe whose views are antithetical to freedom.

  • Was Islam antithetical to American ideas of religious freedom and openness of citizenship?

  • Even the mere thought of calling such a man a patriot profoundly corrupts—is violently antithetical to—the idea of patriotism.

  • Trying to use it do so is antithetical to the achievement of peace and the two-state solution.

  • As if to drive their antithetical missions home, the two Newsrooms have virtually opposing styles.

  • Burkius rightly remarks, that שנא‎ is antithetical to surgere, sedere, dolorum.

  • The writer of the letter from Bombay, signed Ormont, was a born subject for the antithetical craftsmen's tricky springes.

  • He is a great lover of books and gardening—two antithetical hobbies—which are charming in themselves, and healthily counteractive.

  • This also indicates the antithetical positions which the two hold with respect to magic and counter-magic.

  • If man was all male principle, and woman all female principle they would not be complementary, but antithetical.