| Noun | 1. | antagonism - a state of deep-seated ill-willstate - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" latent hostility, tension - feelings of hostility that are not manifest; "he could sense her latent hostility to him"; "the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions" state of war, war - a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring" suspicion - the state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion" | |
| 2. | antagonism - the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors; "the inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism" | |
| 3. | antagonism - an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostilitydislike - a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive" | |
| 4. | antagonism - (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structurebiochemistry - the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occuring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | |