Synonyms for antagonism
All synonyms
Noun
1. Hostility
hostility, enmity, animosity, conflict, antipathy, opposition, contradiction, repugnance, antithesis, clashing, variance, contrariety, discord, disagreement, inconsistency
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Definitions
- n. 1
A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.
Their longstanding antagonism is manifested in frequent scuffles and shouting matches.
Forms
- Plural
- antagonisms → hostilities, enmities, animosities, conflicts…
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Antagonism, as between two competing authors or merchants, does not necessarily imply enmity, but ordinarily suggests a shade, at least, of hostile feeling.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- conflict Your behavior is in conflict with your principles.
- hostility Hostility destroys things. Good will builds things.
- animosity Then that animosity is being passed on down to us?
- enmity The incident earned Dan the enmity of his boss.
- resistance Charles always takes the line of least resistance.
- blockade Israel should lift the blockade it imposed on Gaza.
By length
- 6 letters
- enmity3
- 7 letters
- discord2
- 8 letters
- conflict2, blockade2, variance3, clashing2
- 9 letters
- hostility4, animosity5, antipathy4, renitency
- 10 letters
- opposition4, resistance3, antithesis4, repugnance
- 11 letters
- contrariety
- 12 letters
- disagreement4
- 13 letters
- contradiction4, inconsistency5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (enmity3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- antagonisme
- Italiano
- antagonismo
- Español
- antagonismo