Synonyms for antagonism
ænˈtæg əˌnɪz əman·tag·o·nism

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 11 votes

1. antagonism

   Antipathy, repugnance, and uncongeniality are instinctive; other forms of dislike may be acquired or cherished for cause. Uncongeniality is negative, a want of touch or sympathy. An antipathy to a person or thing is an instinctive recoil from connection or association with that person or thing, and may be physical or mental, or both. Antagonism may result from the necessity of circumstances; opposition may spring from conflicting views or interests; abhorrence and detestation may be the result of religious and moral training; distaste and disgust may be acquired; aversion is a deep and permanent dislike. A natural antipathy may give rise to opposition which may result in hatred and hostility. Compare ACRIMONY; ANGER; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, hostility, opposition, repugnance, repulsion, uncongeniality

   Antonyms:
   affinity, agreement, attraction, congeniality, fellow-feeling, harmony, kindliness, regard, sympathy

   Preposition:
   Antipathy to (less frequently for or against) a person or thing; antipathy between or betwixt two persons or things.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. antagonism

   Synonyms:
   hostility, opposition, animosity, enmity

   Antonyms:
   amity, alliance, association

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. hostility, enmity, antagonismnoun

   a state of deep-seated ill-will

   Synonyms:
   aggression, hostility, enmity, ill will

2. antagonismnoun

   the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

   "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

3. antagonismnoun

   an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

4. antagonismnoun

   (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

   Synonyms:
   hostility, enmity

Matched Categories

1. • Biochemistry
   • Dislike
   • Hostility
   • Interference
   • Opposition

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. opposition and hatred

   unfortunately people are motivated by antagonism

   Submitted by anonymous on December 2, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. antagonismnoun

   Synonyms:
   opposition, contrariety, repugnance, contradiction, clashing

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1. List of paraphrases for "antagonism":

   enmity, hostility, confrontation, antagonistic, hostile

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1. Chris Cuomo:

   There are rhetorical questions, there are questions that are being asked to just to be antagonistic … There are questions that are said for informational basis. And there are questions that have a concern of policy, and I don't think this checked any box other than the antagonism. CNN was always going to cover it. They had always covered my brother for better or worse.

2. John Alderdice:

   At the moment people see themselves as being great leaders because they are conducting conflict, nor because they are solving it and this provides a sense in the global community not of hope but of antagonism.

3. Shaina Louis:

   Prior to Birthright AFRICA, I had a lot of pent up resentment and antagonism due to a history that I felt my people had no say in. For those of us in the diaspora, our history, according to the textbooks, starts with slavery. I was doubtful and kind of cynical about what the future held not only for me as an individual, but also for black people as a whole.

4. John Stuart Mill:

   The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,....

5. Nathaniel Jeanson:

   It may soften the antagonism on the part of the evolutionary community.