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antipathetic

Meaning of "antipathetic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIPATHETIC

ænˌtɪpəˈθɛtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIPATHETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antipathetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANTIPATHETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antipathy

Antipathy is dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy. While antipathy may be induced by experience, it sometimes exists without a rational cause-and-effect explanation being present to the individuals involved. Thus, the origin of antipathy has been subject to various psychological explanations, which some people find convincing and others regard as highly speculative. Sigmund Freud treated this subject.

Definition of antipathetic in the English dictionary

The definition of antipathetic in the dictionary is having or arousing a strong aversion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIPATHETIC

aesthetic · anaesthetic · anesthetic · apathetic · bathetic · biosynthetic · diathetic · dyspathetic · esthetic · hypothetic · nomothetic · parasympathetic · pathetic · prosthetic · prothetic · sympathetic · synthetic · theopathetic · unpathetic · unsympathetic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIPATHETIC

antipapal · antiparallel · antiparasitic · antiparticle · antiparty · antipasti · antipasto · Antipater · antipathetical · antipathetically · antipathic · antipathies · antipathist · antipathy · antiperiodic · antiperistalsis · antiperistaltic · antiperistasis · antipersonnel · antiperspirant

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIPATHETIC

antithetic · athletic · chemosynthetic · diarrhetic · empathetic · epenthetic · general anaesthetic · kinaesthetic · kinesthetic · local anaesthetic · nonaesthetic · parenthetic · photosynthetic · polysynthetic · preanesthetic · prophetic · synaesthetic · synesthetic · thetic · unaesthetic · unprophetic

Synonyms and antonyms of antipathetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANTIPATHETIC»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «antipathetic» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «antipathetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTIPATHETIC

Find out the translation of antipathetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of antipathetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antipathetic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

反感
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

antipática
570 millions of speakers
en

English

antipathetic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

antipathetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منفر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

антипатичны
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

antipática
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বিদ্বেষী
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

antipathique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Antipatetik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

antipathetic
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

性に合わない
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

antipathetic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Antipathetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính không tương phản
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வெறுப்புணர்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दुःखी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

antipatisi olan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

antipathetic
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

antipathetic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

антипатичні
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

antipatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιπαθή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antipathiek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antipathetic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antipathetic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antipathetic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIPATHETIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of antipathetic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «antipathetic».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antipathetic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIPATHETIC»

Discover the use of antipathetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antipathetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Collected Papers of Otto Fenichel: First Series
The patient could again think of antipathetic things, but not at the same time as “ sympathetic” people. Thus he disclosed the fact that the oedipus complex was the objectionable factor in his masturbation. The elaboration of this attempt at ...
Otto Fenichel, Hanna Fenichel, David Rapaport, 1987
2
Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
HardPress, Krafft-Ebing R Von 1840-1902, 2013
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
Strictly, antipathetic is applied to things or to persons objectively considered that are disagreeable, distasteful, uncongenial, abhorrent, or repellent <the whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her — Trollope) <settlers to whom ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
4
Behavior of Sodium Clinopyroxenes Under Compression
Antipathetic M2–O3 bonds tend to become slightly longer than their model equivalents with pressure. This occurs because, with pressure, M2 moves toward the tetrahedral chains, but the antipathetically bonded O3 atoms move away from M2 ...
Andrew Charles McCarthy, 2007
5
Bullying, Rejection, & Peer Victimization: A Social ...
Insofar as we are aware, only one study considered the characteristics of children's antipathies in relation to victimization; Card and colleagues (2000) found that victimization is associated with having antipathetic relationships with peers who ...
Monica J. Harris PhD, 2009
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ...
Antipathetic sensibility, and biases. lBJnsanity objects of sympathy are more numerous, the aflection, bywhich the man is biased, may be said to be the more enlarged. xxn. 16, 17. Antipathetic sensibility and antipathetic biases are just the  ...
Jeremy Bentham, 1823
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ...
____-_-_ -_ influence it exerts over the quantum and bias of men's moral, religious, INTROD', sympathetic, and antipathetic senfibilities. Under a well- constituted, CM" w' or even under a well-administered though ill-constituted government, ...
‎1789
8
Relationship Economics: The Social Capital Paradigm and its ...
The difficulty of an exchange between equally antipathetic buyers and sellers is described graphically. In Figure 10.1 with equal levels of antipathy (JL = /c/(. = k) < 0 there are no prices that are greater than the seller's minimum sell price and ...
Mr Lindon J Robison, Mr Bryan K Ritchie, 2012
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Conscious Experience
I propose to call the above fallacy the 'antipathetic fallacy'. Ruskin coined the phrase 'pathetic fallacy' for the poetic figure of speech which attributes human feelings to nature ('the deep and gloomy wood', 'the shady sadness of a vale').
Thomas Metzinger, 1995
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Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Prospectivity Mapping in GIS
The Cu-As-Ni association, which is antipathetic to a Mn-Zn-Co association reflecting metal scavenging control by Mn-oxides, plausibly reflects mineralisation. Mapping and classification of PC2 scores indicate that anomalies of the Cu-As-Ni ...
E.J.M. Carranza, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTIPATHETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antipathetic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Your View: Scalia makes a pretty poor hero
Here is a man divorced from reality, ignorant or antipathetic to science, an angry, inconsistent, ideologue given to incoherent argument and ... «SouthCoastToday.com, Jul 15»
2
A question for Q&A that needs to be answered
... does not promote sexual violence on social media and is not antipathetic to strong border protection, a guarded approach on climate policy ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
3
A matter of fundamental rights
It is also antipathetic to same-sex marriage - an institution that presupposes the consummation of its fact. With her revolutionary stance that ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
4
Luxury high-rise not the way to go
... deliver environmentally responsible infill and is antipathetic to the kind of community-spirited approach to increased density that we believe is ... «Community Newspaper Group, Jun 15»
5
Paleo-Contact: A History of Pre-History in Doctor Who
In the 'back-to-the-land' Seventies, the interpretation is that the Dæmons' influence is clearly malign, having created the industry so antipathetic ... «Doctor Who UK Webzine, Jun 15»
6
Reflections on the 2015 General Election
Labour's approach to 'Treasury' matters remained centralist, and antipathetic to intervention in the productive economy. Gordon Brown's ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
7
As dangerous as Thomas and Scalia: Meet the right-wing religious …
Lane may have taken cues from that morose stalwart of antipathetic reaction, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Don't forget, a year ago ... «Salon, May 15»
8
Documentaries on Churchill and Joan of Arc offer fresh insights …
Winston was, it turned out, woefully, wilfully, splenetically antipathetic to the labouring classes, to a degree bordering on dysfunction. “I did not ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Arizona border town 'like a war zone all the time,' protesting …
That mix of aging hippies, back-to-the-landers and migrants makes Arivaca particularly antipathetic to arguments that the show of force among ... «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
10
Editorial on water shortage needs to address larger causes involved
It's all about trying to create a state where the majority is uneducated, low income, dependent on government aid, and antipathetic to traditional ... «Daily Californian, May 15»
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