antithetical

English

Etymology

From Latin antitheticus +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæntɪˈθɛtɪkəl/

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Adjective

antithetical (comparative more antithetical, superlative most antithetical)

1. Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

   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.

   • 2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries:

     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.

   • 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^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Derived terms

• antitheticality
• antitheticalness

Translations

pertaining to or being an antithesis

• Catalan: antitètic
• Dutch: contradictorisch (nl), in tegenspraak met
• French: antithétique (fr)
• German: antithetisch
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀντιθετικός (antithetikós)

• Hindi: प्रतिपक्षी (hi) (pratipakṣī), प्रतिपक्षात्मक (pratipakṣātmak), विप्रतिषेधात्मक (vipratiṣedhātmak)
• Hungarian: ellentétes (hu), ellentétben áll, ellentmond (hu)
• Irish: fritéiseach
• Italian: antitetico (it)
• Polish: antytetyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: antitético (pt)
• Romanian: antitetic (ro)
• Spanish: antitético (es)
• Swedish: antitetisk
• Welsh: gwrthgyferbyniol (cy)

Anagrams

• antiathletic