as in contradictory
being as different as possible
spiritual concerns and ideals that are antithetical to the materialism embraced by modern society
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Recent Examples of antithetical
A smoke screen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance.
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Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Aristocracy, the rule of elites relevant in his day—when less than five percent of the population could vote for Members of Parliament—was obviously antithetical to democracy.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
But these charmingly casual houses, many of them centuries old, come with a rigid spatial order that is antithetical to modern lifestyles.
—Joseph Giovannini, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
And subcultures were visually distinct and culturally antithetical.
—Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Aristocracy, the rule of elites relevant in his day—when less than five percent of the population could vote for Members of Parliament—was obviously antithetical to democracy.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
But these charmingly casual houses, many of them centuries old, come with a rigid spatial order that is antithetical to modern lifestyles.
—Joseph Giovannini, Architectural Digest, 4 Sep. 2025
And subcultures were visually distinct and culturally antithetical.
—Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antithetical
Adjective
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The challenge of evaluating Beauvoir is that both her life and her work were extraordinary in ways that are deeply, bafflingly contradictory.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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At least a half-dozen people described an emotional seesaw they were put through by weeks of contradictory UPS tracking updates about their shipments.—
Kayla Steinberg,
NBC news,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Allow contrary viewpoints to be heard.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Oct. 2025
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The current chaotic geopolitical landscape fuels contrary trends in the South Caucasus.—
Thomas de Waal,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Other credits include playing opposite Nicolas Cage in Between Worlds, starring alongside Hilary Duff and Jonathan Bennett in The Haunting of Sharon Tate, and headlining Lifetime’s Psycho Sister-in-Law.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
17 Oct. 2025
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Although the new commercial space ethos of building satellites fast and cheap has dominated Earth imaging from space for years, deep-space astronomy has so far been headed mostly in the opposite direction — trending toward more complex machines worth billions of dollars.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Antithetical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antithetical. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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