antithetical (antithetikal)

[As antithetic +-al.] 1. Pertaining to or of the nature of antithesis; directly opposed or contrasted: as, these conceptions are antithetical. The two great and antithetical intellects which New England produced in the eighteenth century were Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. G. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, I. 6. 2. Containing or abounding in antithesis; characterized by or making use of antithesis. His [Macaulay's] works overflow with antithetical forms of expre ion. Whipple, E . and Rev., I. 29. antithetically (an-ti-thet'i-kal-i), adv. In an antithetical manner; by means of antithesis. antitoxin (anti-toks'in), n. [