antipathetic
Americanadjective
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opposed, averse, or contrary; having or showing antipathy.
They were antipathetic to many of the proposed changes
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causing or likely to cause antipathy.
The new management was antipathetic to all of us.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- antipathetically adverb
- antipatheticalness noun
Etymology
Origin of antipathetic
1630–40; < Greek antipathḗs opposed in feeling ( anti- + -pathēs, adj. derivative of páthos pathos ), with -etic by analogy with pathetic
Example Sentences
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Not only is her singing raucous but her characterization is off-putting, even antipathetic.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024
It would be more of a problem if I were unreasonably antipathetic toward, say, obeying traffic laws.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2022
Can people who make calculated use of the charge to manipulate other people's fears, genuinely feel threatened by anti-Semitism, or wholly antipathetic to it?
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2021
It’s curious, though, that even the party that is relatively antipathetic toward business and capitalism describes such efforts using the language of advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2015
Is the great work that they have done, and the fame they have left behind them in their books, to be consigned to the limbo of oblivion, by an ungrateful because antipathetic Europe?
From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Leonard, Arthur Glyn
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