Antagonists synonyms

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opponents
A person who opposes; person against another in a fight, game, debate, argument, etc.; adversary
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rivals
A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.
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matches
A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
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resisters
A person who resists going along with others in a common course of action.
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assailants
One who assails or attacks; attacker
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foes
An enemy.
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enemies
One who opposes or is hostile to an idea or cause:
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competitors
A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
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attackers
(Soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
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oppositions
(Politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
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protagonists (antonym)
(Usage Problem) A proponent; an advocate.
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supporters (antonym)
An athletic supporter.
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allies (antonym)
The nations allied against the Central Powers of Europe during World War I. They were Russia, France, Great Britain, and later many others, including the United States.
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supports (related)
The state of being supported:
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Find another word for antagonists. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for antagonists, like: opponents, rivals, matches, resisters, adversaries, assailants, foes, enemies, competitors, attackers and oppositions.
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Antagonists Sentence Examples

  • Had the Turks kept befitting guard on the night of the 8th-9th, aware as they were that their antagonists contemplated departure, they must have detected that the British trenches had been vacated.

  • Hoadly was shrewd enough not to answer the most brilliant, though comparatively unknown, of his antagonists, William Law.

  • Complete toleration in fact was only extended to Protestant nonconformists, who composed the Cromwellian established church, and who now meted out to their antagonists the same treatment which they themselves were later to receive under the Clarendon Code of Charles II.

  • Gilbert seems to have submitted quietly to this judgment; he yielded assent to the four propositions, and remained on friendly terms with his antagonists till his death on the 4th of September 1154.

  • Dissensions among the Cossacks led to the recognition by Turkey of Doroshenko, the hetman of the Sari Kamish, as ruler of the Ukraine; the Zaporog Cossacks, his antagonists, applied for aid to Russia.

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