Antagonistic

  • 11antagonistic — an|tag|o|nis|tic [ æn,tægə nıstık ] adjective 1. ) disliking someone or something very much and behaving in a very unfriendly way toward them: antagonistic toward/to: You sound very antagonistic toward her. 2. ) opposing something strongly …

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  • 12antagonistic — [[t]æntæ̱gənɪ̱stɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu v link ADJ, oft ADJ to/towards n If a person is antagonistic to someone or something, they show hatred or dislike towards them. Nearly all the women I interviewed were aggressively antagonistic to the idea …

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  • 13antagonistic — adjective 1 unfriendly; wanting to argue or disagree: an antagonistic attitude 2 opposed to an idea or group (+ to/towards): antagonistic to new ideas antagonistically /kli/ adverb …

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  • 14antagonistic — adjective 1) he was antagonistic to the reforms Syn: hostile to, against, (dead) set against, opposed to, inimical to, antipathetic to, ill disposed to, resistant to, in disagreement with; informal anti Ant: sympathetic, pro 2) …

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  • 15antagonistic — UK [ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk] / US adjective 1) disliking someone or something very much and behaving in a very unfriendly way towards them antagonistic towards/to: You sound very antagonistic towards her. 2) opposing something strongly …

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  • 16antagonistic — adjective /æn.tæ.ɡə.ˈnɪs.tɪk/ Contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces …

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  • 17antagonistic — antagonist ► NOUN ▪ an open opponent or enemy. DERIVATIVES antagonistic adjective. ORIGIN Greek antag nist s, from antag nizesthai struggle against …

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  • 18Antagonistic contradiction — (Chinese language: 矛盾; Pinyin: Máo dùn) is the impossibility of compromise between different social classes. The term is most often applied in Maoist theory, which holds that differences between the two primary classes, the working… …

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  • 19antagonistic pleiotropy — antagonistic pleiotropy. См. антагонистическая плейотропия. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

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  • 20antagonistic muscle — n ANTAGONIST (a) * * * a muscle that counteracts the action of another muscle (the agonistic muscle). Called also antagonist …

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