0 relating to fighting or aggression (= spoken or physical behaviour that is threatening or involves harm to someone or something):
He published a study of agonistic behaviour in freshwater crayfish.
1 relating to an agonist (= a muscle that is pulled in the opposite direction by another muscle):
agonistic muscles
All creatures manifest approach and avoidance behaviors, but they also manifest changes in activity-quiescence, agonistic competition, and prosocial cooperation.
None of these species are known to engage in agonistic interactions at food locations.
Manifestations of its agonistic activity include beneficial actions (potential reduction in osteoporosis and fractures) and harmful actions (increase in the incidence of endometrial carcinoma).
In studies of the conditioning of agonistic behavior, the unconditioned stimulus has been an encounter with an intruding male.
The only weak effect of the antagonist, especially at the highest dose, is probably due to this agonistic activity of the compound.
Basic mechanisms of arousal, agonistic, and prosocial motives-emotions exist in addition to reward-punishment systems.
Temporal nature (our world) emerges not as an inevitable step in divinity's agonistic march toward self-reflexive knowledge.
The number of flowers visited in each plant, duration and number of plants visited per bout, and agonistic behaviour were recorded.
