Synonyms for antipathy
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Noun
1. Hostility — often followed by against, between, for, or to, a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a…
hostility, aversion, distaste, hatred, disgust, abhorrence, animosity, enmity, ill-will, opposition, loathing, antagonism, dislike, detestation, repugnance, rancor US, rancour UK, hate, horror, repulsion, grudge, odium, ill feeling
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Definitions
- n. 1
Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
Related words
- Word family
- antipathous antipathetic antipathetical antipathic antipathical
Forms
- Plural
- antipathies → hostilities, aversions, distastes, hatreds…
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Antipathy, repugnance, and uncongeniality are instinctive; other forms of dislike may be acquired or cherished for cause. An antipathy to a person or thing is an instinctive recoil from connection or association with that person or thing, and may be physical or mental, or both.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- hatred Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world.
- hostility Hostility destroys things. Good will builds things.
- aversion I developed an aversion toward the word "awesome".
- distaste My apathy for voting comes from my distaste for politics.
- anathema No sentence on Tatoeba contains the word "anathema".
By length
- 4 letters
- hate1
- 5 letters
- odium
- 6 letters
- horror2, hatred2, grudge1, enmity3, rancor2
- 7 letters
- dislike2, disgust2, rancour
- 8 letters
- aversion3, loathing2, distaste2, anathema4, froideur
- 9 letters
- hostility4, animosity5, repulsion
- 10 letters
- opposition4, antagonism5, abhorrence3, repugnance
- 11 letters
- detestation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (horror2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- antipathie
- Italiano
- antipatia
- Español
- antipatía
- Català
- antipatia