antagonistic

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antagonistic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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antagonistic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

antagonistic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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