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The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
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Meaning of "repugnant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REPUGNANT

From Latin repugnāns resisting.
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PRONUNCIATION OF REPUGNANT

repugnant  [rɪˈpʌɡnənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPUGNANT

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

WHAT DOES REPUGNANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Repugnant

Repugnant are a Swedish death metal band from Stockholm formed in 1998. According to Swedish Death Metal author Daniel Ekeroth, "Their amazingly old school-sounding death metal is something you must hear to believe." The band has been pointed out as one of the first revivalists of the Swedish death metal movement, along with Kaamos.

Definition of repugnant in the English dictionary

The first definition of repugnant in the dictionary is repellent to the senses; causing aversion. Other definition of repugnant is distasteful; offensive; disgusting. Repugnant is also contradictory; inconsistent or incompatible.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REPUGNANT


benignant
bɪˈnɪɡnənt
component
kəmˈpəʊnənt
continent
ˈkɒntɪnənt
dominant
ˈdɒmɪnənt
impregnant
ɪmˈprɛɡnənt
indignant
ɪnˈdɪɡnənt
malignant
məˈlɪɡnənt
non-malignant
ˌnɒnməˈlɪɡnənt
nonpregnant
ˌnɒnˈprɛɡnənt
oppugnant
əˈpʌɡnənt
permanent
ˈpɜːmənənt
pregnant
ˈprɛɡnənt
premalignant
ˌpriːməˈlɪɡnənt
prominent
ˈprɒmɪnənt
pseudopregnant
ˌsjuːdəʊˈpreɡnənt
regnant
ˈrɛɡnənt
stagnant
ˈstæɡnənt
unbenignant
ˌʌnbɪˈnɪɡnənt
unpregnant
ʌnˈprɛɡnənt
unrepugnant
ˌʌnrɪˈpʌɡnənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPUGNANT

republisher
repudiable
repudiate
repudiation
repudiationist
repudiative
repudiator
repugn
repugnance
repugnancy
repugnantly
repulp
repulse
repulser
repulsion
repulsive
repulsively
repulsiveness
repump
repunctuation

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPUGNANT

complainant
consonant
contaminant
covenant
determinant
Dinant
discriminant
first lieutenant
flight lieutenant
lieutenant
pennant
poignant
predominant
queen regnant
recombinant
remnant
resonant
revenant
ruminant
vernant

Synonyms and antonyms of repugnant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REPUGNANT»

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

Translation of «repugnant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPUGNANT

Find out the translation of repugnant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of repugnant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repugnant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

讨厌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

repugnante
570 millions of speakers

English

repugnant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रतिकूल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بغيض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

противно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

repugnante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেমানান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

répugnant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menjijikkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abstoßend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

気に食わない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혐오
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Repugnant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không hợp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விருமபத்தகாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिकूल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iğrenç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ripugnante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odrażający
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

противно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

respingător
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απεχθής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verwerplik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motbjudande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frastøtende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of repugnant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPUGNANT»

The term «repugnant» is regularly used and occupies the 71.471 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPUGNANT» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «REPUGNANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repugnant.
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Carol Anshaw
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
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Julian Baggini
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.
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Marshall Brickman
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
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Norman Finkelstein
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.
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Tom Lantos
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
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John Marshall
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
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Bruce McCulloch
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
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Sherwin B. Nuland
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.
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James Purefoy
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
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Alain Resnais
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPUGNANT»

Discover the use of repugnant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repugnant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics
This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
Jesper Ryberg, Torbjörn Tännsjö, 2004
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Policyholder's Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage
Escape When two or more policies cover a policyholder's liability and each incorporates an other insurance "escape" clause, courts have also considered the clauses to be mutually repugnant and unenforceable, and have prorated the  ...
Peter J. Kalis, Thomas M. Reiter, James R. Segerdahl, 1997
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A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age
The repugnant-client withdrawal rule does, to be sure, allow lawyers prejudicially to withdraw from representing repugnant clients in sensational cases, and even ( in such cases) to withdraw in order to save themselves from becoming ...
Daniel Markovits, 2010
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An Essay on Judicial Power and Unconstitutional Legislation: ...
The acts of colonial legislatures were null and void, when they were repugnant to the laws of England. In so far as the subject of this Essay makes it needful, this chapter will consider the legal requirement that the laws of a colony should not be ...
Brinton Coxe, 2005
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Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws, ...
if repugnant to the purview of the act, it is void. There is a distinction between the effect of a repugnant saving clause and a repugnant proviso. Whether any sound reason exists for the distinction or not, it seems to be recognized as a settled ...
Henry Campbell Black, 1896
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Clinical Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and ...
Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Dean McKay, Steven Taylor. Unacceptable Obsessional Thoughts and Covert Rituals Christine Purdon, Ph.D. The Nature of Unacceptable Obsessions and Covert Rituals Obsessions often take the form of. repugnant ...
Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Dean McKay, Steven Taylor, 2008
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Environmental Virtue Ethics
CHAPTER. 7. Virtue. Ethics. and. Repugnant. Conclusions. David. Schmidtz. and. Matt. Zwolinski. In a now-classic article, Thomas Hill showed how traditional deontological and teleo- logical theories can fail to track our moral intuitions ...
Ronald D. Sandler, Philip Cafaro, 2005
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Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications
We employ the convention in population ethics that utilities are normalized so that the zero level of utility represents neutrality. Repugnant conclusion: For all N G A/-, for all 4 G R++, for all £ G (0,4), mere exists M G M such that M D N and ( M ...
Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Yongsheng Xu, 2008
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Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics
If the idea that we are required to do just this is what makes the Repugnant Conclusion so repugnant, and if the Total View does not require this in the current situation, the Repugnant Conclusion is indeed less repugnant than it seemed to be.
Tatjana Višak, 2013
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Logica:
Quod contradictoria maxime repugnant 24 Tertia conclusio est quod contradictoria maxime repugnant. Hanc probo dupliciter. Primo per commune dictum theologorum quod "Deus potest facere quodcumque non implicans contradictionem".
Odonis Geraldus, Lambertus Marie de Rijk, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPUGNANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repugnant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Clemson trustees call Tillman 'repugnant'
Clemson University trustees passed a resolution Friday calling the racist views of one of the school's founders, Benjamin Tillman, “repugnant to our values and ... «The State, Jul 15»
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'Repugnant', 'uninspired' and 'awful' - works hated by their own …
'Repugnant', 'uninspired' and 'awful' - works hated by their own composers ... Despite its continued success, Wagner later thought it “repugnant”. Verdi: Alzira ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Man dodges prison for repugnant child abuse images
A pension-aged Palmerston North man has narrowly avoided prison for possessing what a judge says is the worst kind of child sex abuse images possible. «Manawatu Standard, Jun 15»
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Peter Dutton calls Greens senator 'repugnant' over claims he's …
"That's a repugnant statement, even beneath Sarah Hanson-Young, particularly given that 1200 people died at sea while the Greens were in government with ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
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Holder Issues Statement Condemning 'Repugnant' Ferguson Cop …
Holder immediately condemned the “cowardly” attack on the officers as “inexcusable and repugnant.” He said that taking such actions goes against the very ... «Mediaite, Mar 15»
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Eric Holder condemns 'repugnant' shooting of cops in Ferguson
"This heinous assault on two brave law enforcement officers was inexcusable and repugnant," Holder said. "I condemn violence against any public safety ... «Washington Examiner, Mar 15»
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'Constitutionally repugnant': In striking down Nebraska's gay …
The judge said it was “repugnant” to believe that children of same-sex couples should have fewer legal protections than children born into a heterosexual ... «Omaha World-Herald, Mar 15»
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Foxman: J Street campaign against Netanyahu 'inflammatory and …
The only inflammatory and repugnant speech on the issue “has come from rightwing groups such as the Zionist Organization of America, which has compared ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Feb 15»
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Waterboarding: 'Repugnant,' 'Over the Line,' and Perfectly Legal
When national security is invoked, it seems, a technique can be repugnant and over the line without shocking the conscience. Mukasey adds that we know ... «Reason, Dec 14»
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Judge Complains About Lawyer's 'Repugnant Stench'
Judge Patricia A. Riley of the Indiana Court of Appeals delivered an embarrassing benchslap: she objects to the lawyer's “repugnant stench.” Or more accurately ... «Above the Law, Dec 14»

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