SINCE 1828
Antichrist
noun
An·ti·christ
| \ ˈan-tē-ˌkrīst
, -ˌtī-\
, -ˌtī-\
variants:
or less commonly antichrist
or Anti-Christ
or anti-Christ
Definition of Antichrist
1
: one who denies or opposes Christ
specifically
: a great antagonist expected to fill the world with wickedness but to be conquered forever by Christ at his second coming
2
—used in an exaggerated way to describe a person regarded as a powerful and malevolent adversary —usually used with the With time this contrast hardened into hacker iconography. Gates was the anti-Christ, a man whose corporate stranglehold on the software industry had left it awash in ugly products.— Robert Wright
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