Usually means: Direct opposite, contrasting idea sharply.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. antithesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. antithesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antithesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antithesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antithesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antithesis, antithesis: Wordnik
  7. antithesis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antithesis: Wiktionary
  9. antithesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antithesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antithesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Antithesis, antithesis: Dictionary.com
  13. antithesis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. antithesis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Antithesis (Gypsy album), Antithesis (Netherlands), Antithesis (Origin album), Antithesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Antithesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. antithesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. antithesis: Rhymezone
  19. antithesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. antithesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. antithesis: FreeDictionary.org
  22. antithesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. antithesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. antithesis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. antithesis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. antithesis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. antithesis: Merriam-Webster

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. antithesis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. antithesis: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  6. Antithesis: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  7. ANTITHESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. Antithesis: Management Dictionary
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  1. antithesis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. antithesis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antithesis)

▸ noun:  A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
▸ noun:  (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
▸ noun:  (philosophy) The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

Similar:
antithet, antipode, antonym, opposite, counterterm, contrast, counter, counterconclusion, notional opposite, counterthesis, more...

Opposite:
thesis

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antonym, oxymoron, contradiction, more...

Phrases:
opposite of antithesis, antecedent antithesis, antithesis of near, antithesis of a theory, more...

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very, direct, complete, exact, false, absolute, sharp, fundamental, true, real, simple

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Similar:
antithet, antipode, antonym, opposite, counterterm, contrast, counter, counterconclusion, notional opposite, counterthesis, more...

Opposite:
thesis

Types:
antonym, oxymoron, contradiction, more...

Phrases:
opposite of antithesis, antecedent antithesis, antithesis of near, antithesis of a theory, more...

Adjectives:
very, direct, complete, exact, false, absolute, sharp, fundamental, true, real, simple

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



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