Definition
a person who actively opposes someone or something; the villain in a story
In a sentence
“The antagonist of the novel is the corrupt mayor.”
Similar words
- opponent
- adversary
Related vocabulary
Why this word matters: antagonist appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.