antithesis

• Существительное, обозначающее человека или вещь, являющиеся прямой противоположностью кому-либо или чему-либо, или риторический приём, противопоставляющий противоположные идеи.

A noun referring to a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else, or a rhetorical device contrasting opposing ideas.

irregular plural

1. C1formal

   A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

   Прямая противоположность

   • His calm demeanor was the antithesis of her anxious nature.
   • The new policy is the antithesis of everything we stand for.
   • Love is often considered the antithesis of hate.

   Synonymscontradictioncontrarycontrastconverseinverseobverseoppositereverse

   Antonymscounterpartequivalentlikenesssame

2. Rhetorical deviceC2formal

   A figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words.

   Антитеза

   • The speech used antithesis effectively: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'
   • She employed antithesis to highlight the contrast between wealth and poverty.
   • The writer's use of antithesis made the argument more compelling.

   Synonymscontrastjuxtapositionopposition