antagonistically
adverb
antagonistically is an adverb meaning “In an antagonistic manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-A-G-O-N-I-S-T-I-C-A-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does antagonistically mean?
adverb
- 1
In an antagonistic manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antagonistically
- more antagonistically comparative
- most antagonistically superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antagonistically?
Antagonistically appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Antagonistically in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an antagonistic manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antagonicamente, antagonisticamente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antagonistically come from?
From antagonistic + -ally.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).