Definition of antithesis in English:

antithesis

nounPlural antithesesanˈtɪθəsɪsænˈtɪθəsəs

1A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
对立的人（或事）；人（或事物）的对立面
love is the antithesis of selfishness
爱与自私是对立的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life.
- Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite.
- Everything has its antithesis - nothing can exist without its opposite.
- So any attempt to ignore the truth or deliberately not look in the direction where it obviously resides is the antithesis of what intelligence is about.
- The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers.
- Fixed identities rooted in the past represent the antithesis of historical thinking.
- The antithesis of light and day, or the opposite.
- As the world knows, terrorism is the antithesis of love.
- Every theory, she says, has an antithesis - a theory that is in some way its direct opposite.
- Again, one could infer that it is the direct antithesis to works.
- That is the converse of and the antithesis of the circumstances which exist here.
- This is not an easy case to argue in societies like ours, where a kind of narcissistic individualism is continually on display, creating a selfish cult of celebrity that is the antithesis of the values I'm advocating.
- For the past 10 years it has been an antithesis of what is visualised in the education clause of the Freedom Charter.
- This provokes an opposing viewpoint, the antithesis.
- If the major parties manage to get their heads round the concepts, we could see the exact antithesis of The Big Conversation.
- This is the love that is the antithesis of control.
- That is the antithesis of what private equity is set up to do.
- As time passes, what is new becomes old, and meanings change (the antithesis of the ‘timeless past’ beloved of many travel writers).
- That selfish behavior is the antithesis of what ‘good’ Christians are taught.
- But simply put, he is a huckster, the antithesis of the anti-politician, and someone with limited green credentials, to say the least.
Synonyms
(direct) opposite, converse, reverse, reversal, inverse, obverse
the other extreme, the other side of the coin
informal the flip side
1. 1.1 A contrast or opposition between two things.
  （两个事物间的）对照，对应
  the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities
  超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I fail to see any antithesis between deconstruction and construction.
  This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots.
  So that modern monopoly is not a simple antithesis, it is on the contrary the true synthesis.
  Now, your Honours, the antithesis between the two approaches can be seen very clearly from a comparison of three short passages in the judgments.
  The antithesis he relied upon is between at the one extreme, vague ideas, pipedreams and perhaps a little more specifically, a concrete ‘wish list’ and, at the other, a working embodiment for a proposal.
  For Luther, the main antithesis is not between philosophy and theology; it is between good theology and bad theology, according to Gerhard Ebeling.
  In setting up this notion of love as transcending law, the author is engaging in a false antithesis, for true love will not seek anything that is in opposition to the law of God.
  The antithesis creates balance but also invites the reader to weigh the scales.
  This antithesis of two different worlds truly serves as a classification of groups, i.e., insiders and outsiders.
  This insistence upon a gendered dualism of sexual desire maps homosexuality onto an assumed antithesis of masculinity and femininity.
  As a matter of fact no antithesis exists between deduction and induction.
  Smith and Carlos say different: there is no necessary antithesis between athleticism and broader awareness.
  For these reasons I would like to begin by discussing the antithesis between Eve and the church.
  The two halves of the work therefore corresponded to his antithesis between faith and understanding.
  The new antithesis forms out of elements of the original contradiction that didn't make it into the synthesis.
  Not only was the antithesis between the finite and the eternal, the human and the divine, treated by him as ontologically fundamental; in the final analysis it also governed the picture he drew of human nature and its basic orientation.
  There was no necessary antithesis between oral and literate forms of communication and preservation; the one did not have to destroy or undermine the other.
  This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma.
  Synonyms
  contrast, opposition
2. 1.2mass noun A rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed.
  figures of speech such as antithesis
  count noun his sermons were full of startling antitheses
  Example sentencesExamples
  The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme.
  He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious.
  Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
  An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism.
  This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.
2mass noun (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
（黑格尔哲学用语）反题。比较SYNTHESIS
Compare with synthesis
Example sentencesExamples
- Often the synthesis, though adequately reconciling the previous thesis and antithesis, will turn out to be one-sided in some other respect.
- The revelation of this mystical wholeness occurs through the dialectic: a thesis is manifest and contested by its antithesis, the resolution of which, leads to a new thesis and so on.
- Okay, there's the thesis and antithesis, where's the synthesis?
- It is also to be noted that the dialectical process is not simply from thesis and antithesis to final synthesis; it is an eternal, open-ended spiral of development.
- Then, by weighing arguments and applying rules of logic, the thesis and antithesis are united into a synthesis.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai 'set against', from anti 'against' + tithenai 'to place'. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.

Definition of antithesis in US English:

antithesis

nounænˈtɪθəsəsanˈtiTHəsəs

1A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
对立的人（或事）；人（或事物）的对立面
love is the antithesis of selfishness
爱与自私是对立的。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is the love that is the antithesis of control.
- The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers.
- The antithesis of light and day, or the opposite.
- But simply put, he is a huckster, the antithesis of the anti-politician, and someone with limited green credentials, to say the least.
- Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life.
- That is the converse of and the antithesis of the circumstances which exist here.
- That is the antithesis of what private equity is set up to do.
- As the world knows, terrorism is the antithesis of love.
- Every theory, she says, has an antithesis - a theory that is in some way its direct opposite.
- For the past 10 years it has been an antithesis of what is visualised in the education clause of the Freedom Charter.
- Again, one could infer that it is the direct antithesis to works.
- That selfish behavior is the antithesis of what ‘good’ Christians are taught.
- Fixed identities rooted in the past represent the antithesis of historical thinking.
- Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite.
- This is not an easy case to argue in societies like ours, where a kind of narcissistic individualism is continually on display, creating a selfish cult of celebrity that is the antithesis of the values I'm advocating.
- If the major parties manage to get their heads round the concepts, we could see the exact antithesis of The Big Conversation.
- So any attempt to ignore the truth or deliberately not look in the direction where it obviously resides is the antithesis of what intelligence is about.
- As time passes, what is new becomes old, and meanings change (the antithesis of the ‘timeless past’ beloved of many travel writers).
- Everything has its antithesis - nothing can exist without its opposite.
- This provokes an opposing viewpoint, the antithesis.
Synonyms
opposite, direct opposite, converse, reverse, reversal, inverse, obverse
1. 1.1 A contrast or opposition between two things.
  （两个事物间的）对照，对应
  the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities
  超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This antithesis of two different worlds truly serves as a classification of groups, i.e., insiders and outsiders.
  The antithesis creates balance but also invites the reader to weigh the scales.
  This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots.
  For these reasons I would like to begin by discussing the antithesis between Eve and the church.
  I fail to see any antithesis between deconstruction and construction.
  For Luther, the main antithesis is not between philosophy and theology; it is between good theology and bad theology, according to Gerhard Ebeling.
  So that modern monopoly is not a simple antithesis, it is on the contrary the true synthesis.
  In setting up this notion of love as transcending law, the author is engaging in a false antithesis, for true love will not seek anything that is in opposition to the law of God.
  This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma.
  Smith and Carlos say different: there is no necessary antithesis between athleticism and broader awareness.
  The antithesis he relied upon is between at the one extreme, vague ideas, pipedreams and perhaps a little more specifically, a concrete ‘wish list’ and, at the other, a working embodiment for a proposal.
  There was no necessary antithesis between oral and literate forms of communication and preservation; the one did not have to destroy or undermine the other.
  The new antithesis forms out of elements of the original contradiction that didn't make it into the synthesis.
  This insistence upon a gendered dualism of sexual desire maps homosexuality onto an assumed antithesis of masculinity and femininity.
  Now, your Honours, the antithesis between the two approaches can be seen very clearly from a comparison of three short passages in the judgments.
  The two halves of the work therefore corresponded to his antithesis between faith and understanding.
  Not only was the antithesis between the finite and the eternal, the human and the divine, treated by him as ontologically fundamental; in the final analysis it also governed the picture he drew of human nature and its basic orientation.
  As a matter of fact no antithesis exists between deduction and induction.
  Synonyms
  contrast, opposition
2. 1.2 A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”
  （修辞手法）对偶
  his sermons were full of startling antitheses
  Example sentencesExamples
  The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme.
  This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.
  He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious.
  Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
  An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism.
3. 1.3 (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
  （黑格尔哲学用语）反题。比较SYNTHESIS
  Compare with synthesis
  Example sentencesExamples
  Often the synthesis, though adequately reconciling the previous thesis and antithesis, will turn out to be one-sided in some other respect.
  It is also to be noted that the dialectical process is not simply from thesis and antithesis to final synthesis; it is an eternal, open-ended spiral of development.
  The revelation of this mystical wholeness occurs through the dialectic: a thesis is manifest and contested by its antithesis, the resolution of which, leads to a new thesis and so on.
  Okay, there's the thesis and antithesis, where's the synthesis?
  Then, by weighing arguments and applying rules of logic, the thesis and antithesis are united into a synthesis.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.

单词	antithesis
释义	Definition of antithesis in English: antithesis nounPlural antithesesanˈtɪθəsɪsænˈtɪθəsəs 1A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. 对立的人（或事）；人（或事物）的对立面 love is the antithesis of selfishness 爱与自私是对立的。 Example sentencesExamples Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life. Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite. Everything has its antithesis - nothing can exist without its opposite. So any attempt to ignore the truth or deliberately not look in the direction where it obviously resides is the antithesis of what intelligence is about. The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers. Fixed identities rooted in the past represent the antithesis of historical thinking. The antithesis of light and day, or the opposite. As the world knows, terrorism is the antithesis of love. Every theory, she says, has an antithesis - a theory that is in some way its direct opposite. Again, one could infer that it is the direct antithesis to works. That is the converse of and the antithesis of the circumstances which exist here. This is not an easy case to argue in societies like ours, where a kind of narcissistic individualism is continually on display, creating a selfish cult of celebrity that is the antithesis of the values I'm advocating. For the past 10 years it has been an antithesis of what is visualised in the education clause of the Freedom Charter. This provokes an opposing viewpoint, the antithesis. If the major parties manage to get their heads round the concepts, we could see the exact antithesis of The Big Conversation. This is the love that is the antithesis of control. That is the antithesis of what private equity is set up to do. As time passes, what is new becomes old, and meanings change (the antithesis of the ‘timeless past’ beloved of many travel writers). That selfish behavior is the antithesis of what ‘good’ Christians are taught. But simply put, he is a huckster, the antithesis of the anti-politician, and someone with limited green credentials, to say the least. Synonyms (direct) opposite, converse, reverse, reversal, inverse, obverse the other extreme, the other side of the coin informal the flip side 1.1 A contrast or opposition between two things. （两个事物间的）对照，对应 the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities 超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。 Example sentencesExamples I fail to see any antithesis between deconstruction and construction. This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots. So that modern monopoly is not a simple antithesis, it is on the contrary the true synthesis. Now, your Honours, the antithesis between the two approaches can be seen very clearly from a comparison of three short passages in the judgments. The antithesis he relied upon is between at the one extreme, vague ideas, pipedreams and perhaps a little more specifically, a concrete ‘wish list’ and, at the other, a working embodiment for a proposal. For Luther, the main antithesis is not between philosophy and theology; it is between good theology and bad theology, according to Gerhard Ebeling. In setting up this notion of love as transcending law, the author is engaging in a false antithesis, for true love will not seek anything that is in opposition to the law of God. The antithesis creates balance but also invites the reader to weigh the scales. This antithesis of two different worlds truly serves as a classification of groups, i.e., insiders and outsiders. This insistence upon a gendered dualism of sexual desire maps homosexuality onto an assumed antithesis of masculinity and femininity. As a matter of fact no antithesis exists between deduction and induction. Smith and Carlos say different: there is no necessary antithesis between athleticism and broader awareness. For these reasons I would like to begin by discussing the antithesis between Eve and the church. The two halves of the work therefore corresponded to his antithesis between faith and understanding. The new antithesis forms out of elements of the original contradiction that didn't make it into the synthesis. Not only was the antithesis between the finite and the eternal, the human and the divine, treated by him as ontologically fundamental; in the final analysis it also governed the picture he drew of human nature and its basic orientation. There was no necessary antithesis between oral and literate forms of communication and preservation; the one did not have to destroy or undermine the other. This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma. Synonyms contrast, opposition 1.2mass noun A rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed. figures of speech such as antithesis count noun his sermons were full of startling antitheses Example sentencesExamples The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme. He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious. Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love. An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism. This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. 2mass noun (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning. （黑格尔哲学用语）反题。比较SYNTHESIS Compare with synthesis Example sentencesExamples Often the synthesis, though adequately reconciling the previous thesis and antithesis, will turn out to be one-sided in some other respect. The revelation of this mystical wholeness occurs through the dialectic: a thesis is manifest and contested by its antithesis, the resolution of which, leads to a new thesis and so on. Okay, there's the thesis and antithesis, where's the synthesis? It is also to be noted that the dialectical process is not simply from thesis and antithesis to final synthesis; it is an eternal, open-ended spiral of development. Then, by weighing arguments and applying rules of logic, the thesis and antithesis are united into a synthesis. Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai 'set against', from anti 'against' + tithenai 'to place'. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century. Definition of antithesis in US English: antithesis nounænˈtɪθəsəsanˈtiTHəsəs 1A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. 对立的人（或事）；人（或事物）的对立面 love is the antithesis of selfishness 爱与自私是对立的。 Example sentencesExamples This is the love that is the antithesis of control. The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers. The antithesis of light and day, or the opposite. But simply put, he is a huckster, the antithesis of the anti-politician, and someone with limited green credentials, to say the least. Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life. That is the converse of and the antithesis of the circumstances which exist here. That is the antithesis of what private equity is set up to do. As the world knows, terrorism is the antithesis of love. Every theory, she says, has an antithesis - a theory that is in some way its direct opposite. For the past 10 years it has been an antithesis of what is visualised in the education clause of the Freedom Charter. Again, one could infer that it is the direct antithesis to works. That selfish behavior is the antithesis of what ‘good’ Christians are taught. Fixed identities rooted in the past represent the antithesis of historical thinking. Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite. This is not an easy case to argue in societies like ours, where a kind of narcissistic individualism is continually on display, creating a selfish cult of celebrity that is the antithesis of the values I'm advocating. If the major parties manage to get their heads round the concepts, we could see the exact antithesis of The Big Conversation. So any attempt to ignore the truth or deliberately not look in the direction where it obviously resides is the antithesis of what intelligence is about. As time passes, what is new becomes old, and meanings change (the antithesis of the ‘timeless past’ beloved of many travel writers). Everything has its antithesis - nothing can exist without its opposite. This provokes an opposing viewpoint, the antithesis. Synonyms opposite, direct opposite, converse, reverse, reversal, inverse, obverse 1.1 A contrast or opposition between two things. （两个事物间的）对照，对应 the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities 超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。 Example sentencesExamples This antithesis of two different worlds truly serves as a classification of groups, i.e., insiders and outsiders. The antithesis creates balance but also invites the reader to weigh the scales. This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots. For these reasons I would like to begin by discussing the antithesis between Eve and the church. I fail to see any antithesis between deconstruction and construction. For Luther, the main antithesis is not between philosophy and theology; it is between good theology and bad theology, according to Gerhard Ebeling. So that modern monopoly is not a simple antithesis, it is on the contrary the true synthesis. In setting up this notion of love as transcending law, the author is engaging in a false antithesis, for true love will not seek anything that is in opposition to the law of God. This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma. Smith and Carlos say different: there is no necessary antithesis between athleticism and broader awareness. The antithesis he relied upon is between at the one extreme, vague ideas, pipedreams and perhaps a little more specifically, a concrete ‘wish list’ and, at the other, a working embodiment for a proposal. There was no necessary antithesis between oral and literate forms of communication and preservation; the one did not have to destroy or undermine the other. The new antithesis forms out of elements of the original contradiction that didn't make it into the synthesis. This insistence upon a gendered dualism of sexual desire maps homosexuality onto an assumed antithesis of masculinity and femininity. Now, your Honours, the antithesis between the two approaches can be seen very clearly from a comparison of three short passages in the judgments. The two halves of the work therefore corresponded to his antithesis between faith and understanding. Not only was the antithesis between the finite and the eternal, the human and the divine, treated by him as ontologically fundamental; in the final analysis it also governed the picture he drew of human nature and its basic orientation. As a matter of fact no antithesis exists between deduction and induction. Synonyms contrast, opposition 1.2 A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins” （修辞手法）对偶 his sermons were full of startling antitheses Example sentencesExamples The confluence in Browne's prefatory remarks of the topics of antiquarianism and medicine, and the rhetorical antitheses old-new and arising-burial is predictable in antiquarian discourse, where the gifted amateur reigned supreme. This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious. Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love. An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism. 1.3 (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning. （黑格尔哲学用语）反题。比较SYNTHESIS Compare with synthesis Example sentencesExamples Often the synthesis, though adequately reconciling the previous thesis and antithesis, will turn out to be one-sided in some other respect. It is also to be noted that the dialectical process is not simply from thesis and antithesis to final synthesis; it is an eternal, open-ended spiral of development. The revelation of this mystical wholeness occurs through the dialectic: a thesis is manifest and contested by its antithesis, the resolution of which, leads to a new thesis and so on. Okay, there's the thesis and antithesis, where's the synthesis? Then, by weighing arguments and applying rules of logic, the thesis and antithesis are united into a synthesis. Origin Late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.
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