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Definition of agonist



Overview of noun agonist

The noun agonist has 4 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. protagonist, agonist

(the principal character in a work of fiction)

2. agonist

(someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon))

3. agonist

(a muscle that contracts while another relaxes; "when bending the elbow the biceps are the agonist")

4. agonist

((biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction)