Antagonistic
adjective
Acting in opposition or showing hostility.
Their relationship was antagonistic, always fighting and disagreeing.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic relationship
- antagonistic behavior
adjective
Opposing or limiting the effect of a drug or other biological agent.
This medication has an antagonistic effect on the disease, stopping its progression.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic effect
- antagonistic action
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Provoking hostility or opposition.
His antagonistic speeches caused a lot of unrest among the people.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic speeches
- antagonistic comments
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Disapproving
adjective
Acting in opposition or showing hostility.
Their relationship was antagonistic, always fighting and disagreeing.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic relationship
- antagonistic behavior
adjective
Opposing or limiting the effect of a drug or other biological agent.
This medication has an antagonistic effect on the disease, stopping its progression.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic effect
- antagonistic action
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Provoking hostility or opposition.
His antagonistic speeches caused a lot of unrest among the people.
Often appears as...
- antagonistic speeches
- antagonistic comments
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotions
Use 'antagonistic' to describe emotions that directly oppose friendliness or agreement.
His antagonistic tone made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Settings
Apply the term in situations involving arguments, debates, or conflicts.
The debate team's antagonistic approach silenced their opponents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Recognize that using 'antagonistic' can convey a strong emotional reaction and tension.
Their antagonistic stance made reconciliation impossible.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotions
Use 'antagonistic' to describe emotions that directly oppose friendliness or agreement.
His antagonistic tone made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Settings
Apply the term in situations involving arguments, debates, or conflicts.
The debate team's antagonistic approach silenced their opponents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Recognize that using 'antagonistic' can convey a strong emotional reaction and tension.
Their antagonistic stance made reconciliation impossible.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotions
Use 'antagonistic' to describe emotions that directly oppose friendliness or agreement.
His antagonistic tone made everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Settings
Apply the term in situations involving arguments, debates, or conflicts.
The debate team's antagonistic approach silenced their opponents.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Recognize that using 'antagonistic' can convey a strong emotional reaction and tension.
Their antagonistic stance made reconciliation impossible.
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The Sea Turtles of...
are a few sea turtles that do not leave the harbour during the wintertime and they are so reliant upon the fishing boats that are there and the scraps that are being thrown over the fish, uh sorry thrown over the net as scrap that they have. This has been a major part of their daily diet, so we can see two sea turtles here that are fighting over the scraps that are being thrown. And for two sea turtles to fight like this, they're typically solitary creatures. So what we're creating is an environment where sea turtles are interacting on a daily basis and in an antagonistic way.
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Let's use video to...
classroom they took a fundamentally dehumanizing experience a bunch of thirty kids with their fingers on their lips not allowed to interact with each other a teacher no matter how good has to give this kind of one size fits all lecture to thirty students you know blank faces slightly antagonistic and now it's a human experience now they're
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Why Brexit happened --...
"The glass house of globalization has to be open to all if it is to remain secure. Bigotry and ignorance are the ugly face of exclusionary and antagonistic globalization."
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The Sea Turtles of...
are a few sea turtles that do not leave the harbour during the wintertime and they are so reliant upon the fishing boats that are there and the scraps that are being thrown over the fish, uh sorry thrown over the net as scrap that they have. This has been a major part of their daily diet, so we can see two sea turtles here that are fighting over the scraps that are being thrown. And for two sea turtles to fight like this, they're typically solitary creatures. So what we're creating is an environment where sea turtles are interacting on a daily basis and in an antagonistic way.
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Let's use video to...
classroom they took a fundamentally dehumanizing experience a bunch of thirty kids with their fingers on their lips not allowed to interact with each other a teacher no matter how good has to give this kind of one size fits all lecture to thirty students you know blank faces slightly antagonistic and now it's a human experience now they're
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Why Brexit happened --...
"The glass house of globalization has to be open to all if it is to remain secure. Bigotry and ignorance are the ugly face of exclusionary and antagonistic globalization."
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Quote examples
Jennifer Beals
American Actress
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
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Bobby Knight
American Coach
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
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Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
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Whitfield Diffie
American Scientist
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
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Trofim Lysenko
Russian Celebrity
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
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David Longstreth
American Musician
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
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Cindy Sherman
American Photographer
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
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Gary McCord
American Athlete
Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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Jennifer Beals
American Actress
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
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Bobby Knight
American Coach
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
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Blase J. Cupich
American Clergyman
Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
Quote examples
Whitfield Diffie
American Scientist
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
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Trofim Lysenko
Russian Celebrity
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
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David Longstreth
American Musician
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
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Cindy Sherman
American Photographer
The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
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Gary McCord
American Athlete
Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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