antagonizing

English

Alternative forms

• antagonising (mainly UK)

Adjective

antagonizing (comparative more antagonizing, superlative most antagonizing)

1. Tending to antagonize.
   • 2002, Nick Crossley, Making Sense Of Social Movements, page 138:

     In other words, agents are more persuaded by anti-establishment frames when the establishment is both more antagonizing and more resistant to change.

   • 2008, Barry Cooper, Jodi Bruhn, Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life, page 132:

     He had a kind of pugnacity about him that could be very antagonizing.

   • 2020, Jonathan Matusitz, Global Jihad in Muslim and non-Muslim Contexts, page 323:

     The actions of such group or movement become more and more antagonizing to actions of other groups or movements over time.

Derived terms

• unantagonizing

 

Verb

antagonizing

1. present participle and gerund of antagonize