antipathetic

[US]/ˌæntɪpə'θetɪk/
[UK]/æn,tɪpə'θɛtɪk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. strongly opposed or averse; feeling intense dislike or disgust.

Example Sentences

antipathetic to new ideas.

He is antipathetic to dogs.

it is human nature to be antipathetic to change.

He is antipathetic(al) to dogs.

antipathetic factions within the party.

These nations are antipathetic(al) to each other and cannot unite.

Real-world Examples

An Englishman spoke to him from across the aisle but he found something antipathetic in the English lately.

Source: The Night is Gentle (Part Two)

And they left the tent together, this pot-bellied man and florid woman, in the antipathetic, recriminatory mood of the average husband and wife of Christendom.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

A tender, gentle sentimentality prevails from cover to cover; a quality which was always afterwards antipathetic to Tolstoy, and one which he sedulously excluded from his other romances.

Source: The Biography of Tolstoy

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