Word Meanings - ANTAGONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

Related words: (words related to ANTAGONIZE)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• CONTENDER
  One who contends; a contestant.
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• CONTENDRESS
  A female contestant.
• CONTEND
  1. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. For never two such kingdoms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut.
• COUNTERACTIVELY
  By counteraction.
• COUNTERACTION
  Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.
• ACTIVELY
  In an active signification; as, a word used actively. (more info) 1. In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.
• CONTENDENT
  n antagonist; a contestant. In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.
• OPPOSER
  One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
• COACTIVELY
  In a coactive manner.
• NOLO CONTENDERE
  A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
• INACTIVELY
  In an inactive manner. Locke.
• REOPPOSE
  To oppose again.
• ABSTRACTIVELY
  In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.
• RETROACTIVELY
  In a retroactive manner.