Word Study
agonistic
CIDE DICTIONARY
agonistic, 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." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
agonistic, adj. polemical, combative.
Derivative
agonistically adv.
Etymology
LL agonisticus f. Gk agonistikos f. agonistes contestant f. agon contest
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