Antichrist

noun

An·​ti·​christ

ˈan-tē-ˌkrīst,

-ˌtī- 

variants or less commonly antichrist or Anti-Christ or anti-Christ

1

: one who denies or opposes Christ

specifically : a great antagonist expected to fill the world with wickedness but to be conquered forever by Christ at his second coming

2

—used in an exaggerated way to describe a person regarded as a powerful and malevolent adversary

—usually used with the

With time this contrast hardened into hacker iconography. Gates was the anti-Christ, a man whose corporate stranglehold on the software industry had left it awash in ugly products.

—Robert Wright

Examples of Antichrist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That kid, who may or may not still be the Antichrist, is giggling away while every other character on Evil is suffering. —Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024

Anyone else hear that this is the beginning of seven-year period of tribulation during which Antichrist will rise from Hell and trigger Armageddon? —Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

No party could build the Kingdom of Heaven, though Rod did allow that Ronald Reagan might be the Antichrist. —Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024

In a year that’s already seen two major horror movies competing for the title of Best Virgin Nun to Give Birth to the Antichrist, Miller and co-writer M.A. Fortin have miraculously managed to achieve a kind of original sin. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 June 2024

According to Christian eschatology, the Antichrist refers to a person or people prophesied in the bible to oppose Christ and substitute themselves in Christ’s place before the second coming. —Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024

Evil season four Not every show is bold enough to begin its final season by declaring that the birth of the Antichrist is imminent. —Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 27 May 2024

With the rest of Christendom either lost to the Catholic heresy or under Muslim domination, it was left to Russia, as the Third Rome, to keep true Orthodoxy alive and the Antichrist at bay. —Iver B. Neumann, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2017

Season 3 ended on a cliffhanger, as Kristen discovers that her nemesis Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson) has stolen her missing egg from a fertility clinic, using it to impregnate a surrogate and birth the potential Antichrist. —Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 May 2024

Word History

Etymology

Middle English anticrist, from Old English & Late Latin; Old English antecrist, from Late Latin Antichristus, from Greek Antichristos, from anti- + Christos Christ

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1