Synonyms for antagonistic
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1. antagonistic

   Synonyms:
   adverse, alienated, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unfriendly, unkind, warlike

   Antonyms:
   accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed

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1. antagonistic

   Synonyms:
   adverse, opposing, inimical, hostile, repugnant, contrary

   Antonyms:
   favoring, aiding, harmonious, friendly, agreeable to

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1. antagonistic, counteradjective

   indicating opposition or resistance

   Synonyms:
   counter, antipathetic, incompatible, antipathetical

   Antonyms:
   conciliatory, placating, placative, propitiatory, conciliative, interactive, appeasing(a), compatible, neutral, placatory, positive, soft, synergistic, amicable, propitiative, pacific

2. antagonistic, antipathetic, antipatheticaladjective

   characterized by antagonism or antipathy

   "slaves antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions within the party"

   Synonyms:
   loth(p), incompatible, indisposed(p), loath(p), averse(p), antipathetic, antipathetical, counter

   Antonyms:
   placatory, interactive, conciliatory, placating, propitiatory, appeasing(a), conciliative, neutral, synergistic, propitiative, placative, soft, compatible, pacific, positive, amicable

3. antagonisticadjective

   arousing animosity or hostility

   "his antagonistic brusqueness"; "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States"

   Synonyms:
   counter, antipathetic, incompatible, antipathetical

   Antonyms:
   conciliative, soft, conciliatory, amicable, placatory, appeasing(a), positive, pacific, interactive, synergistic, neutral, propitiatory, placating, propitiative, compatible, placative

4. antagonistic, incompatibleadjective

   used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect

   Synonyms:
   out or keeping(p), uncongenial, ill-sorted, incompatible, unfitting, unsuited, inappropriate, discrepant, mismated, antipathetic, antipathetical, counter, contrastive

   Antonyms:
   placatory, positive, propitiatory, placative, neutral, amicable, appeasing(a), compatible, placating, conciliative, propitiative, interactive, synergistic, pacific, conciliatory, soft

5. antagonisticadjective

   incapable of harmonious association

   Synonyms:
   counter, antipathetic, incompatible, antipathetical

   Antonyms:
   conciliative, conciliatory, amicable, soft, positive, placatory, placative, interactive, placating, compatible, appeasing(a), synergistic, propitiatory, neutral, propitiative, pacific

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1. ego-dystonic

   it is freudian. an addiction must become ego dystonic before one decides to abandon it.

   smoking becomes ego dystonic for maybe a long while before it feels necessary to abandon it.

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. antagonisticadjective

   Synonyms:
   opposing, adverse, opposite, hostile, inimical

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1. antagonisticadjective

   Synonyms:
   contradictory, repugnant, conflicting, renitent, adverse

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1. List of paraphrases for "antagonistic":

   antagonist, hostile, antagonism, confrontational, adversarial, conflicting

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1. Justin Onuekwusi:

   Of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

2. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:

   It seems a little more antagonistic, so that part has changed a little bit, but it's not like this was' Leave it to Beaver,'' Mayberry R.F.D.,'' The Donna Reed Show,' it was never a Pollyanna, Mary Poppins place. It was always rough and tumble politics.

3. Emile Coue:

   When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

4. 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.

5. Justin Onuekwusi:

   Trade talks have finished without an agreement, of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.