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UK
/æntˈæɡənˈɪstɪk/
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[ US /ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by antagonism or antipathy
antipathetic factions within the party
slaves antagonistic to their masters - indicating opposition or resistance
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arousing animosity or hostility
his antagonistic brusqueness
Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States - used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- incapable of harmonious association
How To Use antagonistic In A Sentence
- So essentially antagonistic class interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests.
- By these tests we plainly understand the “flesh” to be antagonistical to the Spirit. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
- I am not in any way saying this to be antagonistic, nor to disparage anyone's beliefs; that isn't my way, or my purpose in starting this.
- The ceremony at the square was watched by more than three thousand people, including many who had been so antagonistic to him.
- Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
- His brothers had been, by turns, indifferent and antagonistic to this last-born of the Angevin eaglets... with one exception. HERE BE DRAGONS
- It is clear that you and your daughter have had a difficult and at times antagonistic relationship over the years. Times, Sunday Times
- It has both agonistic actions and weak opioid antagonistic activity.
- This is compatible with a genuine antagonistic action of the drugs during their gradual diffusion and washout.
- Multiple signaling transduction pathways are involved in plant defense responses to insect herbivores, and they can interact with each other, either synergistically or antagonistically.
