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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: agonistic (0.01562 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to agonistic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: agonistic
agonistic
adj 1: of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient
Greece
2: striving to overcome in argument;
“a dialectical and
agonistic approach” [syn:
agonistical,
combative]
3: struggling for effect;
“agonistic poses” [syn:
strained]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Agonistic
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]
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