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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective agonistic has 3 senses
- agonistic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece; Array Derived form noun agonist2
- agonistic(s = adj.all) agonistical, combative - striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach"
- agonistic(s = adj.all) strained - struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"
CIDE DICTIONARY
agonistic, a. [Gr. . See Agonism.].
Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. [1913 Webster]
"As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
agonistic, adj. polemical, combative.
Derivative
agonistically adv.
Etymology
LL agonisticus f. Gk agonistikos f. agonistes contestant f. agon contest
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