agonist
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the principal character in a work of fiction
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- agony derivation
Sense 2 noun
someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon)
Types & categories
- contestant hypernym
Related & opposite
- antagonist antonym
- agony derivation
- excruciation derivation
- agonistic derivation
Sense 3 noun
a muscle that contracts while another relaxes
when bending the elbow the biceps are the agonist
Types & categories
- antagonistic muscle hypernym
Sense 4 noun
(biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction
Types & categories
- drug hypernym
Related & opposite
- biochemistry domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | agony |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | antihero |
| 1 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | character |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | antagonist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | agony |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excruciation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | agonistic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | contestant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | antagonistic muscle |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | biochemistry |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | drug |