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. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   It was very difficult to get everybody around the table. It certainly is going to be even more difficult to get everybody back around the table if you have the Saudis and the Iranians trading public barbs and public expressions of antagonism between the two countries.

2. 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,....

3. Marik Stern:

   A lot of us have developed a political identity different to our parents, they came here with a great antagonism to socialism and anything that has even a whiff of Soviet to it. They are very capitalist.

4. Emma Goldman:

   Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

5. Farhang Jahanpour of Oxford University:

   They should cooperate because if the present state of antagonism continues they will be the losers, and we will be witnessing wars for decades in the entire region and beyond.