Usually means: Opponent opposing protagonist in story.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. antagonist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. antagonist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antagonist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antagonist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antagonist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antagonist, antagonist: Wordnik
  7. antagonist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. antagonist: Wiktionary
  9. antagonist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. antagonist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. antagonist: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. antagonist: Dictionary.com
  13. antagonist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. antagonist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Antagonist (band), Antagonist (disambiguation), Antagonist (drug), Antagonist (muscle), Antagonist (pharmacology), Antagonist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Antagonist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. antagonist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. antagonist: Rhymezone
  19. Antagonist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. antagonist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. antagonist: Free Dictionary
  22. antagonist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. antagonist: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. antagonist: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. antagonist: Legal dictionary

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  1. antagonist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Antagonist: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. antagonist: Sound Alike Words
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  5. Antagonist: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  6. antagonist: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
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  8. antagonist: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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  10. antagonist: Medical dictionary
  11. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  12. Antagonist: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Antagonist: Medicinal Chemistry

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  1. antagonist: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. antagonist: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An opponent or enemy.
noun:  One who antagonizes or stirs.
noun:  (biochemistry) A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not produce a physiological response, blocking the action of agonist chemicals.
noun:  (authorship) The main character or force opposing the protagonist in a literary work or drama.
noun:  (anatomy) A muscle that acts in opposition to another.

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