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
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
Time Traveler
The first known use of Antichrist was before the 12th century