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Antithesis

Pronunciation: /anˈtɪθəsɪs/

Pronunciation

/anˈtɪθəsɪs/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ပကတိဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်။ ပြောင်းပြန်ဖြစ်သော။ ဆန့်ကျင်ဘက်။

Definition

antithesis /æn'tÇθǝsÇs/ n ( pl antitheses ) ( fml ) ၁။ (က) [C usu sing ] ~ (of sth/sb) ပကတိဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္။ Slavery is the antithesis of freedom. (ခ) [U] ေျပာင္းျပန္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္။ The style of his speech was in complete antithesis to the previous one. ၂။ [C , U] ျခားနားေသာ သ႐ုပ္သကန္ကို ေပၚလြင္ေစရန္ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္စကားလံုးတို႔ကို ယွဥ္တြဲသံုးစြဲမႈ။ ‘Give me liberty, or give me death’ is an example of antithesis. ❏ antithetical /æntÇ'θetÇkl/ adj ~ (to sth) ေျဖာင့္ေျဖာင့္ႀကီး ဆန္႔က်င္[ေသာ]။ His approach is antithetical to all modern methods.

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