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Antithetic

adjective
1.
Sharply contrasted in character or purpose.  Synonym: antithetical.  "Hope is antithetic to despair"






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"Antithetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... is laid on names in Scripture. These two parallel and antithetic clauses bring out striking complementary relations between God and the collective Israel. But they are as applicable to each individual member of ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... that if ever I promise, in one number or chapter, careful consideration of any particular point in the next, the next never does touch upon the promised point at all, but is sure to fix itself passionately on some antithetic, antipathic, or antipodic, point in the opposite hemisphere. This manner of conducting a treatise I find indeed extremely conducive to impartiality and largeness of view; but can conceive it to be—to the general reader—not only disappointing, ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... exclusive interpretations (problem of multiple interpretation); yet we have discovered in the parable three practically equivalent schemes of interpretation, the psychoanalytic, the chemical (scientific), and the anagogic. Secondly, the question presents itself more particularly how can two so antithetic meanings as the psychoanalytic and the ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer



Words linked to "Antithetic" :   antithesis, different



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