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antagonist
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antagonist as in:  the antagonist in the film

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    Franklin regarded nature as an antagonist that would inevitably submit to force, good breeding, and Victorian discipline.  (source)
    antagonist = someone who offers opposition
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    [of a dream] In different versions, the antagonist changes form. It has been a Marine Corps drill instructor, a barking dog, a movie villain, and a mean teacher.  (source)
    antagonist = opponent
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    This sort of thing has been happening to others in my faction for months now—the Erudite have been releasing antagonistic reports about Abnegation, and it has begun to affect the way we relate at school.  (source)
    antagonistic = hostile
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    He'd removed the antagonist from the play entirely.  (source)
    antagonist = a character who opposes the main character
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    I kept my eyes down as I went to sit by him, bewildered by the antagonistic stare he'd given me.  (source)
    antagonistic = hostile
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    That had been broken up when his parents sprayed water on the antagonists, hauling them away by their tails.  (source)
    antagonists = adversaries (opponents)
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    The tone of her explanation was sad, unantagonistic, almost gentle.†  (source)
    unantagonistic = without opposition or hostility
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unantagonistic means not and reverses the meaning of antagonistic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Carley liked the girl's looks and liked the sincerity of her greeting; but instinctively she reacted antagonistically because of the frank suggestion of intimacy with Glenn.†  (source)
    antagonistically = with opposition or hostility
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    Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again and leaped aside.  (source)
    antagonist = opponent
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    Ruth liked the antagonistic little dogs, who barked ardently as she passed.  (source)
    antagonistic = hostile
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    Of the making of books and articles about linguistics there is no end, and much study apparently does not weary the antagonists' flesh.  (source)
    antagonists = opponents
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    She is my forever antagonist.†  (source)
    antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
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    So their self-denial, their purposefulness, their suspicion of all vain pursuits, their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man.  (source)
    antagonistic = hostile
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