antagonistic

Modifies a noun

• muscle: The arm is not the only place to have antagonistic muscles working together.
• attitude: In January, 1941, this antagonistic attitude on the part of Russia first showed in the diplomatic sphere.
• relationship: Attempts to avoid a vaginal birth were partly due to antagonistic relationships with medical staff.
• relation: It supported an ideology of spatial determinism, where antagonistic social relations could be tethered by how people are arranged in space.
• effect: Recent studies confirm that the TOAs exert antagonistic effects on the action of the POAs.
• class: Lenin explains that the state arose when society first divided into antagonistic classes.

Modifying Another Word

• mutually: Two mutually antagonistic philosophies were always inherent in the creation of the internal market.
• openly: There is more hope for the openly antagonistic than for the coolly indifferent.
• increasingly: She points to growing resistance to an increasingly antagonistic role of councils ( Stewart 1996, p 135 ).
• often: They have to deal with two, often antagonistic, people.
• even: They remained outside, and even antagonistic to, the Ukrainian Revolution.
• so: Why do you think Karl Marx was so antagonistic to religion?

Used with adjective complement

• become: There is a threat, the longer the occupation stays, the more these divisions will become antagonistic.
• feel: I don't feel antagonistic toward these styles of worship tho, if I'm honest, I do have some real concerns.
• get: OR they'll get antagonistic with us or worse still they'll laugh at us.