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antiparticle |
antipartticle |
antipasch |
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antipathetic
| antipathetical
| antipathic
| antipathist
| antipathize
| antipathous
antipathetic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective antipathetic has 2 senses
- antipathetic(s = adj.all) antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth - (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request" Derived forms noun antipathy2, noun antipathy1
- antipathetic(s = adj.all) antagonistic, antipathetical - characterized by antagonism or antipathy; "slaves antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions within the party" Derived forms noun antipathy2, noun antipathy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
antipathetic, a.
Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
antipathetic, adj. (usu. foll. by to) having a strong aversion or natural opposition.
Derivative
antipathetical adj. antipathetically adv.
Etymology
as ANTIPATHY after PATHETIC
THESAURUS
antipathetic
abhorrent, acrid, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipodal, antithetic, antithetical, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at daggers drawn, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, balancing, belligerent, bitter, breakaway, caustic, clashing, colliding, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, despiteful, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disgusting, disharmonious, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, distasteful, divergent, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, fractious, full of hate, grating, hateful, hostile, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, inconsistent, inharmonious, inimical, inverse, jangling, jarring, loathsome, malevolent, malicious, malignant, negative, nonconformist, noncooperative, obnoxious, obstinate, obverse, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, resistant, reverse, revolutionary, rival, set against, sore, spiteful, squared off, uncongenial, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unpropitious, unsympathetic, variant, venomous, virulent, vitriolic
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