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(n)
(authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
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Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
(adj)
Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
An enemy.
The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
(logic) Either of a pair of propositions, that cannot both be true or both be false.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
Someone who intrudes.
A person or organization against whom one is competing.
The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
One who challenges; especially, one who plays against the current champion of a game or contest in hopes of winning and becoming the new champion.
(uncountable) The action of competing.
A person who fights; a combatant.
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
The ability to be deducted, such as from one's taxes
A reduction in price.
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
The act or process of deducting part of a charge, debt, etc.
Someone who attacks.
An enemy, especially an archenemy.
A participant in a dispute.
One who opposes, one who shows opposition.
A person engaged in combat, often armed.
Someone who competes with one or more other people.
Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally.
The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
opposing, antagonistic, contrary
Engaged in warfare, warring.
A participant in a contest; specifically, a person who plays a game, as on a TV game show.
A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
A person who opposes; especially a member of an official opposition
(law) The opposing party in a lawsuit under an adversary system of law; adversary.
(countable) A person who appraises the works of others.
An enemy or opponent.
Not friendly; hostile; mean.
Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
One who opposes something.
One against whom there is opposition; the opposed party.
Misspelling of antagonist. [An opponent or enemy.]
An opponent of critics or criticism.
One who, or that which, antagonizes.
(law) a hostile witness.
(archaic) One who stands in opposition to (a belief, cause, etc.); an opposer
Obsolete spelling of enemy. [Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.]
A side, party (e.g. a team or armed force) seen as adversary, enemy etc. opposite one (or more) other(s), as in a battle or team sports competition.
(countable) A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
An opposing struggle.
One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer.
The party against whom a legal challenge is brought.
An oppositional person, especially one opposed to government actions and projects.
An especially disliked or hostile person.
Alternative form of antagonizer. [One who, or that which, antagonizes.]
Opposed to something.
(typically socialism or communism) A political or class opponent of the subgroup in power within a larger group.
Alternative form of contradicter. [One who contradicts.]
An allegiance opposing another allegiance.
An effort made in opposition to another.
(rare) An opponent of discrimination.
A detractor.
An advocacy that is opposed to another advocacy.
An opposing reason; a reason against something.
An argument that is opposed to another argument.
A strong natural dislike or hatred; antipathy.
An alliance formed in opposition to another alliance.
An opponent of anarchism.
One who opposes a creator.
Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
A project proposed in opposition to another.
A type (of person) that opposes and contrasts with another.
One who contradicts.
One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
(figurative, frequently humorous, usually in the plural) An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.
A person whom somebody else objects to.
A system that opposes or counteracts another.
One who consistently denies, criticizes, or doubts; a detractor.
A person who objects to something.
Alternative form of libelant. [A party which has made a libel (hostile handbill) against a libelant]
(Church of England) A party who opposes the grant of a faculty for the alteration of a church.
One who is not a friend; an enemy.
(fiction) An antagonist who has or may have noble or honorable aims, but pursues them destructively.
A participant in a backlash
Alternative spelling of anti-anarchist. [An opponent of anarchism.]
opposition
(obsolete) One who makes objection; an objector.
The victim or recipient of aggression.
A campaign that opposes another campaign.
A process or action of antagonizing.
Opposed to a government currently in power.
Someone who affronts.
A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist.