antagonise
verb
antagonise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antagonize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-A-G-O-N-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antagonise mean?
verb
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of antagonize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce antagonise?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-antagonise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of antagonise
- antagonises present, singular, he/she/it
- antagonising participle, present
- antagonised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antagonise?
Antagonise appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).