Antichrist

noun

An·ti·christ | \ ˈan-tē-ˌkrīst,

-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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