Preposition: of

• democracy: The EU is the antithesis of accountable parliamentary democracy invented by the British over 700 years ago.

• everything: He's a rat, the very antithesis of everything I hold dear about this country.

• freedom: In the beginning Many people on the right would have us believe that government is the antithesis of freedom.

• sustainability: This, to us, is the antithesis of sustainability.

• approach: Treatment centers, operated by foreign companies and employing visiting staff are an antithesis of this approach.

• spirit: A dream team is the antithesis of the Olympic spirit.

Converse of object

• represent: His work is seen to represent the antithesis of any progressive political engagement.

• seem: HTBA's development of a business strategy might seem the antithesis of an artistic strategy, but is not.

• consider: Pausing to consider the antithesis of all we hold dear does not enable us to progress in our understanding of it.

• create: I'm not setting out to create an antithesis, simply to highlight an issue that, to me, stands out very strongly.

• become: The collective mind of the board of directors had become the antithesis of the momentum Tesla had gained in his lifetime.

• make: But I must follow the antithesis made by Thompson.

Adjective modifier

• absolute: Powell's films are the absolute antithesis of realist cinema.

• false: My book and my life is founded on equality so a false antithesis has been set up!

• exact: His character is the exact antithesis of Dan Dare's.

• complete: The complete antithesis to my own Watcher life of conformity.

• very: Isn't the world of the corporation the very antithesis of the poet's vocation?

• total: In fact it was the total antithesis of that.