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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. striving to overcome in argument;
- Example: "a dialectical and agonistic approach"
[syn: agonistic, agonistical, combative]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Agonistic \Ag`o*nis"tic\, Agonistical \Ag`o*nis"tic*al\, 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. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

agonistical adj 1: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach" [syn: agonistic, agonistical, combative]