Antagonistic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antagonistic \An*tag`o*nis"tic\, Antagonistical
  \An*tag`o*nis"tic*al\, a.
     Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against;
     as, antagonistic forces. -- {An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly}, adv.
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           They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic.
                                                    --Milman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antagonistic
       adj 1: indicating opposition or resistance [syn: {counter}]
       2: characterized by antagonism or antipathy; "slaves
          antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions
          within the party" [syn: {antipathetic}, {antipathetical}]
       3: arousing animosity or hostility; "his antagonizing
          brusqueness"; "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites
          States" [ant: {conciliatory}]
       4: used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or
          neutralize each other's effect [syn: {incompatible}] [ant:
           {synergistic}]
       5: opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary
          action [syn: {counteractive}] [ant: {active}]
       6: incapable of harmonious association

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  181 Moby Thesaurus words for "antagonistic":
     acrid, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, aggressive,
     alien, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous,
     at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
     averse, balancing, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bitter,
     bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, breakaway, caustic,
     chauvinist, chauvinistic, clashing, colliding, combative,
     compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting,
     contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct,
     contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse,
     counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive,
     counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking,
     cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, despiteful, detrimental,
     differing, difficult, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing,
     discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disinclined,
     disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, divergent,
     enemy, eyeball to eyeball, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious,
     full of fight, full of hate, grating, hard, harmful, hateful,
     hawkish, hostile, immiscible, in opposition, inaccordant,
     incompatible, inconsistent, inconsonant, indisposed, inharmonious,
     inimical, inverse, jangling, jarring, jingo, jingoish, jingoist,
     jingoistic, malevolent, malicious, malignant, martial, militant,
     militaristic, military, miserable, negative, nonconformist,
     noncooperative, not easy, obstinate, obverse, offensive, opponent,
     opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant,
     out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, pugnacious,
     quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, reactive, recalcitrant,
     refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, reverse, revolutionary,
     rigorous, rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage,
     scrappy, set against, sinister, soldierlike, soldierly, sore,
     spiteful, squared off, stressful, trigger-happy, troublesome,
     troublous, truculent, trying, uncongenial, uncooperative,
     unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpacific, unpeaceable,
     unpeaceful, unpropitious, untoward, unwilling, variant, venomous,
     virulent, vitriolic, warlike, warmongering, warring, wretched