WORD: ANTITHESIS
MEANING:
1. Direct contrast; opposition.
2. The direct or exact opposite: Hope is the antithesis of despair.
3.
a. A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure, as in "Hee for God only, shee for God in him" (John Milton).
b. The second and contrasting part of such a juxtaposition.
4. The second stage of the Hegelian dialectic process, representing the opposite of the thesis.
5. opposite, contraxt, reverse
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. WhatsApp, the antethesis of Facebook
2. his theory is the antithesis of mine
3. Rich is the antithesis of poor.
PRONOUNCE:
an·tith·e·sis - ऐन्टिथसस / ऐन्टिथिसिस
LINK: ANTITHESIS
MEANING:
1. Direct contrast; opposition.
2. The direct or exact opposite: Hope is the antithesis of despair.
3.
a. A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure, as in "Hee for God only, shee for God in him" (John Milton).
b. The second and contrasting part of such a juxtaposition.
4. The second stage of the Hegelian dialectic process, representing the opposite of the thesis.
5. opposite, contraxt, reverse
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. WhatsApp, the antethesis of Facebook
2. his theory is the antithesis of mine
3. Rich is the antithesis of poor.
PRONOUNCE:
an·tith·e·sis - ऐन्टिथसस / ऐन्टिथिसिस
LINK: ANTITHESIS
No comments:
Post a Comment