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Antagonistic   /æntˌægənˈɪstɪk/   Listen
Antagonistic

adjective
1.
Indicating opposition or resistance.  Synonym: counter.
2.
Characterized by antagonism or antipathy.  Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical.  "Antipathetic factions within the party"
3.
Arousing animosity or hostility.  "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States"
4.
Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect.  Synonym: incompatible.
5.
Incapable of harmonious association.



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"Antagonistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Legislature; then, as a fatal corollary, the downfall of the House of Savoy, and the proclamation of a kind of republican federation of all the former petty States of Italy under the august protectorate of the Pope. On the whole, the struggle was between these two antagonistic elements—the first bent on upholding the Church by a rigorous maintenance of the old traditions, and the other predicting the fall of the Church if it did not follow the bent of the coming century. But all was ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... David, I shall not tell." She was not antagonistic or defiant. Her voice was not raised, nor did it betray an unusual emotion. It was simply decisive, and the unflinching steadiness of her eyes and the way in which she sat with her hands folded gave to ...
— The Flaming Forest • James Oliver Curwood

... all this awful suffering, heretics and Jews remained antagonistic to the church, and in March, A.D. 1492, the edict of the expulsion of the Jews was signed. "All unbaptized Jews, of whatever age, sex, or condition, were ordered to leave the realm by the end of the following July. If they revisited it, they should suffer death. They might sell their effects, ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... at one another across their coffee cups as once before they had laughed across their glasses of Kakhetian wine—two eternally antagonistic types that will exist ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... methods be placed in the hands of the Eugenic Board, with powers to discriminate as to which method is the more suitable for each individual case. The two methods are complementary, not antagonistic, and suitable safeguards for the liberty of the subject ...
— Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders • W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews


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