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UK
/ˌæntɪpɐθˈɛtɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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(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 -
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.