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Definition of Antagonistic

1. Adjective. Indicating opposition or resistance.

2. Adjective. Characterized by antagonism or antipathy. "Antipathetic factions within the party"

3. Adjective. Arousing animosity or hostility. "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States"

4. Adjective. Used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect.

5. Adjective. Incapable of harmonious association.

Definition of Antagonistic

1. a. Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.

Definition of Antagonistic

1. Adjective. Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antagonistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antagonistic

ant venoms anta antacid antacids antacrid antae antagomir antagomirs antagonise antagonised

antagonises antagonising antagonism antagonisms antagonist antagonistic (current term) antagonistic effect antagonistic muscle antagonistic muscles antagonistic reflexes

antagonistically antagonistick antagonists antagonizable antagonization antagonize antagonized antagonizes antagonizing antagony

Literary usage of Antagonistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"This may be called antagonistic Effort, ie, equal efforts expended in opposite directions, so that A is neutralized by B and B is neutralized by A. It is ..."

2. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"(The Integration of antagonistic Reflexes Simultaneous Combination.—Two antagonistic reflexes, which use the inal common path to cross purposes, ..."

3. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"THE antagonistic ACTION OF ANIONS. BY ORAN L. RARER. (From the Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge.) (Received for publication ..."

4. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"THE SYMPATHETIC DIVISION antagonistic TO BOTH THE CRANIAL AND THE SACRAL As indicated in the foregoing description many of the viscera are innervated both ..."

5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Sequence of antagonistic reflexes. The role of inhibition in this ... Factors determining the issue of the competition between antagonistic reflexes. ..."

6. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"Doctrine that Counter-Claim must be antagonistic to, and tend to defeat, ... In other words, the two demands must be, to some extent at least, antagonistic, ..."

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