| 单词 | antagonism |
| 释义 | antagonism (once / 397 pages) n Antagonism means hostility. You might feel antagonism toward your annoying little sister, particularly if she's always borrowing your stuff without asking. Antagonism is one of the few things you can share easily with someone you don't like. You might feel antagonism toward your school, or at least the idea of going to school. If you're an antagonistic person, you feel antagonism to lots of people and things. WORD FAMILYantagonism: antagonise, antagonisms, antagonist, antagonistic, antagonize+/antagonise: antagonised, antagonises, antagonising/antagonist: antagonists/antagonistic: antagonistically/antagonize: antagonized, antagonizes, antagonizing USAGE EXAMPLESThis activity was viewed with bemusement by the camp’s inhabitants, but without the antagonism that photography provoked. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Ambrose accuses President Obama of breaking “records in polarizing the country” by stirring up class antagonisms, heightening racial tensions and helping instigate political stalemate. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) “The plaintiff is a developer with a long history of antagonism toward the council opponents of its oversized development project,“ Pepper said. Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1n an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility Hyper dislike a feeling of aversion or antipathy enmity, hostility, ill willthe feeling of a hostile person 2n a state of deep-seated ill-will Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper enmity, hostility Cold War a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States latent hostility, tension feelings of hostility that are not manifest state of war, wara legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply cold wara state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare suspicionthe state of being suspected proxy wara war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate cloudsuspicion affecting your reputation state the way something is with respect to its main attributes 3n the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism Hyper oppositeness, opposition the relation between opposed entities 4n (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure Hyper hinderance, hindrance, interference the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding |
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