Antagonistic
Antagonistic adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.
Usage example: countries that have been antagonistic towards each other for centuries
Negative is a synonym for antagonistic. In some cases you can use "Negative" instead an adjective "Antagonistic".
Negative
Negative adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.
Usage example: classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants
Antagonistic is a synonym for negative in bad topic. You can use "Antagonistic" instead an adjective "Negative", if it concerns topics such as pessimistic.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- contrary and antagonistic
- contrary and negative
- unfriendly and antagonistic
- unfriendly and negative
- hostile and antagonistic
- hostile and negative
- inimical and antagonistic
- inimical and negative
- contradictory and antagonistic
- contradictory and negative
- injurious and antagonistic
- injurious and negative
- adverse and antagonistic
- adverse and negative
Both words in one sentence
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It doesn't help that the fandom is one of the most diverse and self-antagonistic groups on the internet (response to anything new is almost overwhelmingly negative) so you have thousands of fanboys and girls arming themselves with canon to push their point.
Source: Armed with Canon -
A rare case of negative Character Development as she is grateful to you at the first rescue but antagonistic to you by the fourth rescue, but if you want that Blast Helmet, you'll have to be a jackass to her.
Source: Video Game / Enter the Gungeon - After the character was recast in the second season, she became a lot more of a liberal Granola Girl who was trying to keep Boyd away from anything negative whatsoever, dodgeball being just the start of that, and became openly antagonistic to her conservative, but more rational father Mike.
Source: Flanderization / Live-Action TV
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