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antipathy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antipátheia), noun of state from ????????? (antipath?s, opposed in feeling), from ???? (antí, against) + root of ????? (páthos, feeling).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æn?t?p??i/
  • Hyphenation: an?tip?athy

Noun

antipathy (countable and uncountable, plural antipathies)

  1. A feeling of dislike (normally towards someone, less often towards something); repugnance or distaste.
    • 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
      Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
    • June 1917, The National Geographic Magazine Volume 31, No. 6, Our State Flowers/The Sagebrush
      The sagebrush belongs to the composite family, and its immediate cousins are widely distributed. They are known as the artemisias, and there are a host of them, many with important uses in the economy of civilization. Artemisia absinthium is popularly known as wormwood; from it comes the bitter, aromatic liquor known as eau or crême d'absinthe. Many of its cousins grow in Asia and Europe, including the mugwort, used by the Germans as a seasoning in cookery; southernwood, used by the British to drive away moths from linen and woolens and to force newly swarmed bees, which have a peculiar antipathy for it, into the hive
  2. Natural contrariety or incompatibility

Usage notes

  • Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

Synonyms

  • (dislike): : hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

Antonyms

  • sympathy

Related terms

  • antipathetic
  • antipathetical
  • antipathize

Translations

Further reading

  • antipathy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • antipathy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • antipathy at OneLook Dictionary Search

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disrelish

English

Etymology

From dis- +? relish.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d?s???l??/

Noun

disrelish (uncountable)

  1. A lack of relish: distaste
    • The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him
    • 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
      Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
    • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
      [] that those eyes may glow
      With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
      Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:
      They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
  2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

Verb

disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)

  1. (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
    • September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
      Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished
  2. (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

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