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antipathetic

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[ UK /ˌæntɪpɐθˈɛtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
    clearly indisposed to grant their request
    antipathetic to new ideas
    loath to go on such short notice
    averse to taking risks
  2. characterized by antagonism or antipathy
    antipathetic factions within the party
    slaves antagonistic to their masters

How To Use antipathetic In A Sentence

  • Now, it is well known that there is nothing more antipathetic to your peasant-boy than your shopboy. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
  • It's human nature to be antipathetic to change.
  • To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage -- not to call it anything stronger -- was positively antipathetical. Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • Moreover, credit union managers in too many instances have been drawn from conventional financial intermediaries whose philosophies are wholly alien and antipathetic to mutualism.
  • But of all Orientals, the most antipathetical companion to an Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • I grew up pretty firmly antipathetic to the lifeless slabs of fishy that schools flopped onto my little dishy, but I realise it's because they'd simply cooked the point right out of them.
  • My own belief is that, in the present context, the common law is not antipathetic to concurrent liability, and that there is no sound basis for a rule which automatically restricts the claimant to either a tortious or a contractual remedy.
  • Most of your friends are indifferent or antipathetic to it, so you don't bring it up much when talking about movies.
  • There is something about a university which is naturally antipathetic to the state.
  • The modern Republican Party isn't just antipathetic to democracy - it seems to be doing everything within its power to convert it into a sham of itself, all the benefits of democracy without any of the actual practice or participation.
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