antithetic

1. 1.

   sharply contrasted in character or purpose

   “practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs”

   “hope is antithetic to despair”

   Synonymsantithetical

   Similardifferent

Questions about antithetic

What does antithetic mean?

antithetic means "sharply contrasted in character or purpose".

How many syllables are in antithetic?

antithetic has 4 syllables: an-ti-the-tic. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for antithetic?

Close synonyms include antithetical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antithetic a common word?

antithetic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.