antagonistic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English antagonist

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English antagonistic

From antagonist + -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/, [ɛənˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk]
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ænˌtæɡ.əˈnɪs.tɪk/

Adjective

antagonistic (comparative more antagonistic, superlative most antagonistic)

1. Contending or acting against.

   Synonyms: hostile, adverse; see also Thesaurus:combative

   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎^[1]:

     They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic.

   • 1866, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health:

     Though the tephrosia is a powerful agent, and, if carried too far beyond the antagonistic action of the poison, is, I presume, not entirely without danger, I have never known any bad symptoms to arise from its use.

   • 2002, Barry Ames, The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil, page 171:

     And deputies from opposing parties, inherently more antagonistic than deputies from the same party, can be bought at a lower price.

   • 2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The tone of congressional hearings involving tech industry executives in recent years can best be described as antagonistic.

2. (biochemistry) Relating to an antagonist.

Derived terms

• antagonistically
• heteroantagonistic
• homoantagonistic
• isoantagonistic
• nonantagonistic
• transantagonistic
• unantagonistic

Translations

contending — see also hostile

• Catalan: antagonista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對抗性的 / 对抗性的 (duìkàngxìng de)

• Esperanto: antagonista (eo)
• French: antagonique (fr)
• German: antagonistisch (de)
• Greek: ανταγωνιστικός (el) m (antagonistikós)
• Hungarian: antagonisztikus (hu), ellenséges (hu), szemben álló
• Kazakh: антагонистік (antagonıystik)
• Latin: infestus
• Māori: nihoniho, ngākaukino
• Polish: antagonistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: antagonista (pt), antagónico (pt) (Portugal), antagônico (pt) (Brazil), antagonístico
• Romanian: antagonic (ro), antagonist (ro)
• Spanish: antagonista (es), antagónico (es)

biochemistry: relating to an antagonist

• Hungarian: antagonista (hu)

Anagrams

• anti-agnostic, antiagnostic