Usually means: Characterized by conflict or opposition.
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  1. agonistic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. agonistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. agonistic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. agonistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. agonistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. agonistic: Wordnik
  7. agonistic: Wiktionary
  8. agonistic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. agonistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. agonistic: Dictionary.com
  11. Agonistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Agonistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. agonistic: Rhymezone
  14. Agonistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. agonistic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. agonistic: Free Dictionary
  17. agonistic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. agonistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. agonistic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. agonistic: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. agonistic: Encyclopedia

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  1. agonistic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (agonistic)

adjective:  Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
adjective:  (zoology, anthropology) Characterised by conflict or hostility.
adjective:  (rhetoric) Argumentative; combative.
adjective:  Struggling to achieve an effect; strained and contrived.
adjective:  (pharmacology, biochemistry) Pertaining to an agonist.

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