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noun

antagonist n.

One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. "Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King." "Our antagonists in these controversies."

(Anat.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.

(Med.) A substance which opposes the actions of another substance in the body, especially a drgu that counteracts the effects of another drug.

Synonyms: Adversary; enemy; opponent; foe; competitor. See Adversary.

adjective

Antagonist adj. Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

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"Antagonist" Quotes from Famous Books

... fight began the Mohawks were seen to do the bidding of a tall and agile chieftain. Though Little Turtle was the nominal leader, it is conceded that the main antagonist whom St Clair had pitted against him in this engagement was Joseph Brant. Having sent his militiamen on in advance, the American general had bivouacked with the regulars by the side of a small stream, which ran into the Wabash. Just before daybreak ...

— The War Chief of the Six Nations - A Chronicle of Joseph Brant - Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • Louis Aubrey Wood

... curtly responded the stranger. The priest was silent. A murmur arose. Austin, who had trained himself to study those among whom he laboured, saw that the feeling was rising strongly against him. His antagonist saw it ...

— The Forest of Vazon - A Guernsey Legend Of The Eighth Century • Anonymous

... development. What Veblen calls "the instinct of workmanship" grows on, slowly and irresistably; but the malign features of our industrial life are distinctively androcentric: the desire to get, of the hunter; interfering with the desire to give, of the mother; the desire to overcome an antagonist—originally masculine, interfering with the desire ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... am assured, I may answer for them) will decline to waste time on mere darkenings of counsel of this sort; but to those Anglicans who accept his premises, Dr. Newman is a truly formidable antagonist. What, indeed, are they to reply when he puts the very ...

— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley

... them as being 330 and 379 respectively. This is the only just method; I take it for granted that each commander meant to tell the truth, and of course knew his own force, while he might very naturally and in perfect good faith exaggerate his antagonist's.] For all the British victories we have British official letters, which tally almost exactly, as regards matters of fact and not of opinion, with the corresponding American accounts. For the first year the British also published official accounts of their defeats, which in ...

— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt

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