antithetical

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin antitheticus +‎ -al.[1]

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Adjective

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antithetical (comparative more antithetical, superlative most antithetical)

  1. Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
    His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community.
    This is precisely why insistence on relative truth is antithetical to critical thinking.
    • 2020, John Renard, Crossing Confessional Boundaries:
      Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.
    • 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Yet as Mr. Altman raised OpenAI’s profile, some board members worried that ChatGPT’s success was antithetical to creating safe A.I., two people familiar with their thinking said.

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References

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  1. ^ antithetical, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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