Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: antithesis
IPA transcription: [ænt'ɪθəsəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: antithesis
    Meaning: exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"
Usage examples
  • Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.
  • It was not, of course, by way of theatrical antithesis that Edison appeared in Paris at such a time.
  • Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.
  • Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste.