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121adjuvant — adj *auxiliary, contributory, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, subservient Analogous words: aiding, helping, assisting (see HELP vb): supporting, upholding, backing (see SUPPORT vb): *effective, efficient, efficacious, effectual Antonyms:… …
122antagonistic — counteractive, counter, *adverse Analogous words: opposing, resisting, withstanding, contesting, fighting, combating, conflicting (see RESIST): incompatible, discordant, *inconsonant: hostile (see corresponding noun at ENMITY): *antipathetic,… …
123antidote — *corrective, check, control Analogous words: counteractive, neutralizer (see corresponding verbs at NEUTRALIZE): nullifier, negator, annuller (see corresponding verbs at NULLIFY): *remedy, medicine, physic …
124contradictory — n contrary, antithesis, opposite, antonym, antipode (see under OPPOSITE adj) Analogous words: *converse, reverse contradictory adj contrary, antithetical, *opposite, anton ymous, antipodal, antipodean Analogous words: negating, nullifying (see… …
125counter — antagonistic, counteractive, *adverse Analogous words: contrary, *opposite, antithetical, antipodal, antipodean, antonymous, contradictory: hostile, inimical (see corresponding nouns at ENMITY) …
126opposite# — opposite n contradictory, contrary, antithesis, antipode, antonym (see under OPPOSITE adj) opposite adj Opposite, contradictory, contrary, antithetical, antipodal, antipodean, antonymous are comparable chiefly as applied to abstractions and as… …
127adverse — adj 1. antagonistic, hostile, belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious; averse, unfriendly, uncongenial; antipathetic, antipathetical, repugnant, oppugnant, irreconcilable; injurious, inimical, pernicious, noxious, harmful, hurtful, afflictive,… …
128antagonistic — adj 1. opposing, opposed, adverse, antithetic, antithetical, oppugnant, counteractive, repugnant, thwarting; disputative, disputatious, contentious, argumentative, quarrelsome; rival, rivaling, competing, contrary, contradictory, renitent;… …
