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• n  exact opposite
  his theory is the antithesis of mine
• n  the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance

• She was the antithesis of her predecessor; tough, combative and aggressive.
• After a week spent assuring the country that he is the antithesis of his widely despised predecessor, the President made the same mistakes as Mr Davies.
• The participants at the democracy forum were an antithesis of the earlier repressive and brutal era.

News & Articles

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• Rev. John Boyle, 87, Fourth Presbyterian pastor witnessed horror of Dachau Rev. John Boyle, associate pastor at Fourth ...
  John Boyle found his path to God after walking into the hell of Dachau. He was a 19-year-old sergeant serving with the U.S. Army forces that liberated the infamous German concentration camp on April 29, 1945. “God forgive us all,” he thought, surveying the unspeakable atrocities around him. “It was a call to be on the side of whatever was the antithesis of that horror,” he later wrote, “and that ...
  June 7, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times

Quotes

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• Padraig Harrington in SkySports
  We have zero in common, bar the fact that we both play golf,Harrington told The Guardian. "He is the antithesis of me, and I am the antithesis of him. We play the game in exactly the opposite way. He is destined to find the long game easy...
• David Remnick in New York Times
  Steve was the antithesis of a business-school-minted android,Mr. Remnick said. "He had Groucho's big cigar and sly mustache, and he was pinstriped and dapper like one of Peter Arno's cartoon executives."
• Armen Keteyian in Sun-Sentinel.com
  You felt like you knew him because he was such the antithesis of so much of what sports broadcasting is today,Keteyian said. "He wasn't a screamer. He didn't make it about him."