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say it: an-TITH-uh-suhs
antithesis is a noun meaning "exact opposite". It is pronounced /ænˈtɪθəsəs/ — an-TITH-uh-suhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antithesis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.