Synonyms of the word antagonistic


ANTAGONISTICALIENATING - ANTACID - ANTIPATHETIC - ANTIPATHETICAL - ANTIPHLOGISTIC - COUNTER - HOSTILE - INCOMPATIBLE - NEGATIVE

antagonistic

  • adj. Contending or acting against.

alienating

  • adj. Tending to alienate.
  • v. present participle of alienate.

antacid

  • n. An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity, especially in the stomach.
  • adj. Counteracting or neutralizing acidity, especially in the stomach.

antipathetic

  • adj. Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance.
  • adj. Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic.
  • adj. Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant.

antipathetical

  • adj. Antipathetic, with antipathy, without caring.

antiphlogistic

  • adj. Counteracting inflammation.
  • adj. Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
  • n. (pharmacology) A plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.

counter

  • n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
  • n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
  • n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
  • n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
  • n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
  • n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
  • n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
  • n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
  • n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
  • n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
  • n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
  • n. (Internet) A hit counter.
  • adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
  • n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
  • n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
  • v. To contradict, oppose.
  • v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
  • v. To take action in response to; to respond.
  • adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
  • adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
  • adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
  • adv. At or against the front or face.
  • n. (obsolete) An encounter.
  • n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
  • n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
  • n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
  • n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
  • n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

hostile

  • adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence,…
  • adj. Aggressive, antagonistic.
  • adj. Of a hostile takeover.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

incompatible

  • adj. Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; irreconcilable; disagreeing.
  • adj. (chemistry) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
  • n. (medicine, chemistry, chiefly in the plural) An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that…
  • n. (philosophy) A consequent of a contrary.

negative

  • adj. not positive or neutral.
  • adj. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles.
  • adj. (mathematics) of number, less than zero.
  • adj. (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition.
  • adj. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
  • adj. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.).
  • adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right…
  • adj. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
  • adj. (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant,…
  • adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
  • n. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition.
  • n. (law) a right of veto.
  • n. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
  • n. (grammar) a word that indicates negation.
  • n. (mathematics) a negative quantity.
  • n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is…
  • n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  • v. To veto; to refuse.
  • v. To contradict.
  • v. To disprove.
  • v. To make ineffective, neutralize.
  • interj. (signalling, law) An elaborate synonym for the word No.

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