antipathy

Noun

Meaning

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

aversion distaste opposition hatred dislike disgust enmity repugnance contrariety satanism venom repulsion malice loathing detestation
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Antonyms

sympathy amity jones amnesty will use
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Hypernyms

object dislike

Related terms

apathy pathos pathetic sympathy antipathetic antipathetical

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

antipathies

Examples

cats were his greatest antipathy Source: Internet

Abbas justifies his actions against both the U.S. and Israel on the basis of his deep antipathy towards the Trump Peace Plan, to the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city, and his personal aversion to President Trump himself. Source: Internet

According to some of his biographers, his stepfather Bruno's alcoholism and the limited cultural life of the small town contributed to Handke's antipathy to habit and restrictiveness. Source: Internet

According to one GOP strategist, that mutual antipathy and the rhetoric it drives on the right is effective. Source: Internet

And again, to the same correspondent, May 6, 1863: citation I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school. Source: Internet

Bolton discusses Mr. Trump's negotiating tactics with foreign leaders and his antipathy to intelligence he does not like. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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