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[ an-tag-uh-nis-tik ] / ænˌtæg əˈnɪs tɪk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR antagonistic ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveacting in opposition; opposing, especially mutually. hostile; unfriendly. Origin of antagonisticFirst recorded in 1625–35; antagonist + -ic OTHER WORDS FROM antagonistican·tag·o·nis·ti·cal·ly, adverbnon·an·tag·o·nis·tic, adjectivenon·an·tag·o·nis·ti·cal·ly, adverbWords nearby antagonisticAntabuse, antacid, Antaeus, antagonism, antagonist, antagonistic, antagonistic muscles, antagonize, antagonizer, Antakiya, Antakya Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for antagonisticSo there’s a gap in the sports coverage that’s antagonistic, almost, to power and authority. ‘All taking a chance on each other’: Jasper Wang on Defector Media’s collective ownership structure|Pierre Bienaimé|September 29, 2020|Digiday Ironically, Hezbollah and its backer Iran have not always had an antagonistic relationship with al-Qaeda. Hezbollah, Jabhat al-Nusra Set for Showdown in Syria|Jamie Dettmer|March 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST In Canada, relations between the federal system and the provincial system are much more fraught — often antagonistic. Why Doesn't Canada Have a Two Party System?|David Frum|October 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST No matter how antagonistic the question or the barb, Jackson keeps a low voice and a respectful tone. Obama's Big Green Gun|Michelle Cottle|November 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Facing 75 years, an air of unreality surrounds Bongiorno's antagonistic behavior. Madoff's Millionaire Secretary|Allan Dodds Frank|December 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST It was bad enough in America, with all the agencies involved, which led to some antagonistic moments among them in Katrina. Haiti's Grisly Problem|Cyril Wecht|January 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST Attention is here drawn once more to the antagonistic reactions of temperature and radiation effects of heat. Life Movements in Plants|Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose Alternate and antagonistic bargaining went on thus for more than two months. A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times|Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot Nearly all the philosophers had been secretly, and many of them openly, antagonistic to the people's religion. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy|W. T. Stace See, then, how differently this class of phenomena bears on the antagonistic hypotheses. Illustrations of Universal Progress|Herbert Spencer Such carefulness over conduct and heart is fully compatible with all the blessed emotions to which it seems at first antagonistic. Expositions of Holy Scripture|Alexander Maclaren
British Dictionary definitions for antagonistic
adjectivein active opposition mutually opposed Derived forms of antagonisticantagonistically, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to antagonisticinimical, unfriendly, combative, hostile |