Repugnant \Re*pug"nant\ (-nant), a. [F. r['e]pugnant, or L.
repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.]
Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at
variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient;
also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually
followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all
rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
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[His sword] repugnant to command. --Shak.
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There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less
repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself.
--Perkins.
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Syn: Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent;
irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
repugnant
adj : offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
"repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene,
repulsive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "repugnant":
abhorrent, abjuratory, abnegative, abominable, acrid, adversary,
adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti,
antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes,
at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, awful, balancing,
base, beastly, belligerent, below contempt, beneath contempt,
bitter, breakaway, caustic, clashing, colliding, compensating,
competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, contemptible,
contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive,
contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter,
counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing,
counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross,
crotchety, crude, dead against, denying, despicable, despiteful,
detestable, differing, disaccordant, disaffirming, disagreeable,
disagreeing, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, discordant,
discrepant, disgusting, disharmonious, disowning, disproportionate,
dissentient, dissident, dissonant, distasteful, divergent,
dreadful, enemy, execrable, extraneous, extrinsic,
eyeball to eyeball, fetid, forbidding, foreign, foul, fractious,
frightful, full of hate, fulsome, ghastly, grating, grisly, gross,
gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, hostile,
ignoble, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inimical, intolerable,
inverse, invidious, jangling, jarring, loathsome, malevolent,
malicious, malignant, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
nasty, nauseating, nauseous, negative, negatory, noisome,
nonconformist, noncooperative, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
obscene, obstinate, obverse, odious, offensive, opponent, opposed,
opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant,
out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome,
rancorous, reactionary, rebarbative, recalcitrant, recanting,
refractory, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repellent,
repelling, repudiative, repulsive, resistant, reverse, revocative,
revocatory, revolting, revolutionary, revulsive, rival,
set against, sickening, sore, spiteful, squared off, stinking,
terrible, uncongenial, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly,
ungenial, unharmonious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpropitious,
unsavory, unsympathetic, variant, venomous, vile, virulent,
vitriolic
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
REPUGNANT. That which is contrary to something else; a repugnant condition
is one contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot
in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliens, the condition is repugnant
and void. Bac. Ab. Conditions, L.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive
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