antagonistic

Examples

• All

• The problem is green leafy vegetables have some components that are antagonistic with the effects of Coumadin.

• The two chemicals exhibit antagonistic properties, preventing each other from functioning effectively.

• So these requirements to do this and this are sort of antagonistic to each other.

• And when it goes off on its own dynamic, it does things which are really antagonistic to to what capital is about.

• Only a few antagonistic interactions among colony members have been reported.

  Academic text (2008)

• The enterprise must be considered a society of persons in which labor and capital play complementary rather than antagonistic roles.

  Academic text (2010)

• Astronomers used to think of these two processes, accretion and outflow, as antagonistic.

  Academic text (1995)

• So these effects of inflammatory mediators are antagonistic too, and they dominate the homeostatic signals of hormones and neurotransmitters.

• Theoretically, arginine's antagonistic effect on lysine could adversely affect patients with the virus (Flodin, 1997).

  Academic text (2002)

• Similarly, activation of TFL with gluteus medius would internally rotate the thigh during stance and be antagonistic to hip extension.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

O

opposing

vsantagonistic

15 3.4

Being against another person or group

describes two items that neutralize one another rather than general conflict

C

counteractive

vsantagonistic

1 7.0

Acting against something to reduce its effect

involves two items opposing each other rather than one acting alone

Antonyms

S

synergistic

5 6.7

Working together to produce a greater result than alone

Compounds

A

antagonistic muscle

• Specialized

6.3

A muscle that works against another to control movement at a joint

How Opposing

opposing

15 3.4

antagonistic

• Specialized

1 7.7

cooperative

119 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology