variants
or less commonly antichrist
or Anti-Christ
or anti-Christ
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.—
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Her credits include Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt and the upcoming LGBTQ+ period drama Miss Pirie and Miss Woods, starring Flora Nicholson and Fiona Shaw.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
This comes in the shape of Antichrist, the controversial director's ultra-violent art-horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple who, after the death of their child, experience terrifying visions.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Not the one about Jesus’ life and death, but the one about his Second Coming, featuring the world’s best foils: the red dragon, i.e., Satan, and the beast from the sea, whom theologians later interpreted as the Antichrist.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
No party could build the Kingdom of Heaven, though Rod did allow that Ronald Reagan might be the Antichrist.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
The opening and ending of Antichrist, that’s great cinema.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Satanic Temple may seem an obvious case to some, but 17th-century Baptists once called the Pope the Antichrist, as a Commonwealth Magazine piece noted.
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—Peter Greene, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The Antichrist is often portrayed as a tyrant who deceives with lies, signs and wonders for the purpose of controlling mankind.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
That kid, who may or may not still be the Antichrist, is giggling away while every other character on Evil is suffering.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
This comes in the shape of Antichrist, the controversial director's ultra-violent art-horror film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a married couple who, after the death of their child, experience terrifying visions.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
Not the one about Jesus’ life and death, but the one about his Second Coming, featuring the world’s best foils: the red dragon, i.e., Satan, and the beast from the sea, whom theologians later interpreted as the Antichrist.
—Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
No party could build the Kingdom of Heaven, though Rod did allow that Ronald Reagan might be the Antichrist.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
The opening and ending of Antichrist, that’s great cinema.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Satanic Temple may seem an obvious case to some, but 17th-century Baptists once called the Pope the Antichrist, as a Commonwealth Magazine piece noted.
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—Peter Greene, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The Antichrist is often portrayed as a tyrant who deceives with lies, signs and wonders for the purpose of controlling mankind.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
That kid, who may or may not still be the Antichrist, is giggling away while every other character on Evil is suffering.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Antichrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Antichrist. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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