Usually means: Directly opposed or sharply contrasted.
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  1. antithetical: Merriam-Webster
  2. antithetical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antithetical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antithetical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antithetical: Vocabulary.com
  6. antithetical: Wordnik
  7. antithetical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antithetical: Wiktionary
  9. antithetical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antithetical: Dictionary.com
  11. antithetical: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Antithetical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. antithetical: Rhymezone
  14. Antithetical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. antithetical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. antithetical: FreeDictionary.org
  17. antithetical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. antithetical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. antithetical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. antithetical: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antithetical: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antithetical)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

Similar:
antithetic, different, antonymic, antinomic, antinomical, antistrophic, antistrophical, antitropous, antichthonic, antiphonary, more...

Opposite:
synonymous

Types:
thesis, antithesis, synthesis, more...

Phrases:
is antithetical to, antonym for antithetical, more...

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Similar:
antithetic, different, antonymic, antinomic, antinomical, antistrophic, antistrophical, antitropous, antichthonic, antiphonary, more...

Opposite:
synonymous

Types:
thesis, antithesis, synthesis, more...

Phrases:
is antithetical to, antonym for antithetical, more...

Colors:
    black,     white,     red,     green,     blue, more...



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