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[ adjective ] sharply contrasted in character or purpose

Synonyms

antithetic

Examples

"practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs" "hope is antithetic to despair"

Used in print

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

This is true for two reasons : because Communism is both doctrinally , and in_practice , antithetical to these conditions ; and because Communists have the will and , as long as Soviet power remains intact , the capacity to prevent their realization .

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