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词汇 antipathetic
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Definition of antipathetic in English:

antipathetic

adjectiveˌantɪpəˈθɛtɪkænˌtɪpəˈθɛdɪk
  • Showing or feeling a strong aversion.

    十分反感的,厌恶的

    it is human nature to be antipathetic to change

    厌恶变化是人类的天性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'm not entirely antipathetic to the extended paper - 60 marks in an hour and three quarters is probably underestimating our abilities somewhat - but it would have been nice to have had some forewarning.
    • We have argued that the ‘culture of academic psychology’ is, at best, often indifferent to, and, at worst, often antipathetic to the kinds of research that might make the most difference in education.
    • And so a culture is created that is antipathetic to innovation and artistic experiment.
    • Prior to World War II, Americans were by and large antipathetic to the British empire.
    • Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
    • But unless I'm actually antipathetic to someone, then of course hugs and the like are nice.
    • Most of your friends are indifferent or antipathetic to it, so you don't bring it up much when talking about movies.
    • Whilst I, perhaps bizarrely, think positively about him, it is a fact that his voting record in the House of Commons has, over many years, been antipathetic to the cause of homosexual equality.
    • 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.
    • It is why I am equally antipathetic to fundamentalism of a non-religious kind, where people just keep parroting a view regardless of the evidence or the arguments.
    • The anti-monarchist sites out there range from the mildly reformist to the rabidly antipathetic.
    • Moreover, credit union managers in too many instances have been drawn from conventional financial intermediaries whose philosophies are wholly alien and antipathetic to mutualism.
    • There was something compulsive, engaging, about Krakow's siege mentality, and spring, with all its brash coquetry, seemed oddly antipathetic.
    • His mother Alice, felt so antipathetic towards the church that she burnt a lock of John Wesley's hair.
    • That is what makes Miliband, the genuine philosopher in the quartet, insist the promoting of equality and the encouragement of meritocracy - far from being antipathetic - are objectives that go hand-in-hand.
    • Without a compulsory voting system like that practiced in Australia, Korean voting patterns are characterized as apathetic and antipathetic, and this trend is distorting the true feelings of the public on polling day.
    • It not only stifled dissent, it bred a whole new rhetoric antipathetic to civil liberties and due process of law.
    • But still we hear deeply entrenched economic attitudes which promote business strategies antipathetic to sustainable development.
    • It fuels the movements that are antipathetic to our values and way of life.
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    hostile, opposed, antagonistic, averse, ill-disposed, unsympathetic
    against, (dead) set against
    informal anti, agin, down on

Origin

Mid 19th century: from antipathy, on the pattern of pathetic.

Definition of antipathetic in US English:

antipathetic

adjectiveænˌtɪpəˈθɛdɪkanˌtipəˈTHedik
  • Showing or feeling a strong aversion.

    十分反感的,厌恶的

    it is human nature to be antipathetic to change

    厌恶变化是人类的天性。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is why I am equally antipathetic to fundamentalism of a non-religious kind, where people just keep parroting a view regardless of the evidence or the arguments.
    • But still we hear deeply entrenched economic attitudes which promote business strategies antipathetic to sustainable development.
    • But unless I'm actually antipathetic to someone, then of course hugs and the like are nice.
    • Without a compulsory voting system like that practiced in Australia, Korean voting patterns are characterized as apathetic and antipathetic, and this trend is distorting the true feelings of the public on polling day.
    • It fuels the movements that are antipathetic to our values and way of life.
    • 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.
    • Prior to World War II, Americans were by and large antipathetic to the British empire.
    • And so a culture is created that is antipathetic to innovation and artistic experiment.
    • I'm not entirely antipathetic to the extended paper - 60 marks in an hour and three quarters is probably underestimating our abilities somewhat - but it would have been nice to have had some forewarning.
    • The anti-monarchist sites out there range from the mildly reformist to the rabidly antipathetic.
    • We have argued that the ‘culture of academic psychology’ is, at best, often indifferent to, and, at worst, often antipathetic to the kinds of research that might make the most difference in education.
    • There was something compulsive, engaging, about Krakow's siege mentality, and spring, with all its brash coquetry, seemed oddly antipathetic.
    • Moreover, credit union managers in too many instances have been drawn from conventional financial intermediaries whose philosophies are wholly alien and antipathetic to mutualism.
    • 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.
    • It not only stifled dissent, it bred a whole new rhetoric antipathetic to civil liberties and due process of law.
    • His mother Alice, felt so antipathetic towards the church that she burnt a lock of John Wesley's hair.
    • Whilst I, perhaps bizarrely, think positively about him, it is a fact that his voting record in the House of Commons has, over many years, been antipathetic to the cause of homosexual equality.
    • That is what makes Miliband, the genuine philosopher in the quartet, insist the promoting of equality and the encouragement of meritocracy - far from being antipathetic - are objectives that go hand-in-hand.
    • Although personally antipathetic to his modernist pioneering spirit, I have been seduced time and again by the ravishing sounds that he produces.
    • Most of your friends are indifferent or antipathetic to it, so you don't bring it up much when talking about movies.
    Synonyms
    hostile, opposed, antagonistic, averse, ill-disposed, unsympathetic

Origin

Mid 19th century: from antipathy, on the pattern of pathetic.

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