Antagonism Synonyms and Antonyms

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Deep-seated hatred, as between longtime opponents or rivals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. animosity
  2. animus
  3. antipathy
  4. enmity
  5. hostility
  6. ill will
  7. discordancy
Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. enmity

Words Related to Antagonism

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Antagonism Sentence Examples

  • The antagonism of the opposition parties was even more pronounced.

  • For three days the will of king and people were locked in antagonism; then Alexander gave way; the long eastward movement was ended; the return began.

  • There is no antagonism between the divisions of the coloured race.

  • In the Principles of Sociology Spencer's most influential ideas have been that of the social organism, of the origination of religion out of the worship of ancestral ghosts, of the natural antagonism between nutrition and reproduction, industrialism and warfare.

  • Top of page CHAPTER II The year 1910 brought a seeming realization of this antagonism by the men.

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