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ANTIPATHETIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antipathetic mean?
• ANTIPATHETIC (adjective)
The adjective ANTIPATHETIC has 2 senses:
1. (usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
2. characterized by antagonism or antipathy
Familiarity information: ANTIPATHETIC used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') strongly opposed
Synonyms:
antipathetic; antipathetical; averse; indisposed; loath; loth
Context example:
clearly indisposed to grant their request
Similar:
disinclined (unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval)
Derivation:
antipathy (the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided)
antipathy (a feeling of intense dislike)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by antagonism or antipathy
Synonyms:
antagonistic; antipathetic; antipathetical
Context example:
antipathetic factions within the party
Similar:
hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will)
Derivation:
antipathy (the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided)
antipathy (a feeling of intense dislike)
Context examples
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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