Of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic. / (zoology, anthropology) Characterised by conflict or hostility. / (rhetoric) Argumentative; combative.

(archaic) agonistic (of or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks).

A person engaged in a struggle.

simple past tense and past participle of agonise

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agonise

present participle of agonise

Alternative form of agonizing

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of agonize

(immunology) A monoclonal antibody that aims to boost the human immune system either to fight infection or cancer.

(biochemistry) A drug or other chemical that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiologic reaction typical of a naturally occurring substance. Co-agonist implies it is one of other agonists working in conjunction.