All 4 Uses of
antagonist
in
War and Peace
- The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther edge of the clearing.†
Chpt 4antagonists = people who offer opposition or are hostile
- Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face.†
Chpt 4 *antagonist = someone who offers opposition or is hostile
- When there were quarrels, his kindly smile and well-timed jests reconciled the antagonists.†
Chpt 8antagonists = people who offer opposition or are hostile
- In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive.†
Chpt 12antagonistic = with opposition or hostility
Definitions:
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(1)
(antagonist as in: the antagonist in the film) someone who offers opposition or is hostile
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Specialized Definitions of antagonist:- literature or storytelling: the most important character who opposes the main character or protagonist
- physiology: a muscle that relaxes when another muscle contracts
- chemistry and biology: a substance that interferes with the effect of another substance