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Antithetical vs Dialectical - What's the difference?

antithetical | dialectical |

As adjectives the difference between antithetical and dialectical

is that antithetical is pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted while dialectical is of, or pertaining to dialectic; logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

antithetical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
  • His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community.
    This is precisely why insistence on relative truth is antithetical to critical thinking.

    Derived terms

    * antitheticality * antitheticalness

    dialectical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or pertaining to dialectic; logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
  • Of, or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal.
  • See also

    * dialectal