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Word: Antithetical
Speech Type: Adjective
late 16th century (in antithetical (sense 2)): from Greek antithetikos, from antithetos ‘placed in opposition’, from antitithenai ‘set against’
ˌantɪˈθɛtɪkl
directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible
Short Definition:directly opposed or contrasted
Examples:- people whose religious beliefs are antithetical to mine
connected with, containing, or using the rhetorical device of antithesis
Short Definition:connected with, containing, or using rhetorical device of antithesis
Examples:- when praising the government, Pyrocles invokes the familiar oxymoronic and antithetical mode
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