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adj. Striving to overcome in argument; combative.

adj. Struggling to achieve effect; strained and contrived.

adj. Of or relating to contests, originally those of the ancient Greeks.

adj. Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.

adj. Characterised by conflict or hostility.

adj. Argumentative, combative.

adj. Pertaining to an agonist.

adj. Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.

Pertaining to contests of strength or athletic combats, or to contests of any kind, as a forensic or argumentative contest.

Combative; polemic; given to contending.

Strained; aiming at effect; melodramatic.

n. The act of combating or struggling; combat; struggle.

adj. striving to overcome in argument

adj. struggling for effect

adj. of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece

"In an antagonistic what in biology is called agonistic encounter with another animal, a dog wants to appear to be the bigger, more powerful creature—so he makes a big-dog sound."

competitive    competitory    affected    unnatural    agonistical   

agonistic threat display    agonistic muscle    agonistic pluralism    agonistic buffer    agonistic monoclonal antibody   

athletic    combative    unnatural   

remonstrative    talky    calisthenic    ill-humored    TNT    human-created    noogie    racquetball    expository    calisthenics