Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antipathetic \An`ti*pa*thet"ic\, Antipathetical
\An`ti*pa*thet"ic*al\, a.
Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to
a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to.
--Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s "having an antipathy for," from an adjectival construction from Greek antipathein (see antipathy). Related: antipathetical (c.1600); antipathetically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance 2 opposed in nature or character; antagonistic 3 Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant
WordNet
adj. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request" [syn: antipathetical, averse(p), indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)]
characterized by antagonism or antipathy; "slaves antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions within the party" [syn: antagonistic, antipathetical]
Usage examples of "antipathetic".
It is antipathetic to the gentleness of her nature, to the amenity, to the sweet timidity which are the greatest charms of the fair sex, besides, women never carry their learning beyond certain limits, and the tittle-tattle of blue-stockings can dazzle no one but fools.
So what is there about such cults that is so antipathetic to mainstream Catholicism?
This nature, positive in the midst of its enthusiasms, that had loved the church for the sake of the flowers, and music for the words of the songs, and literature for its passional stimulus, rebelled against the mysteries of faith as it grew irritated by discipline, a thing antipathetic to her constitution.
An irrational instinct had rendered the painter and his paintings antipathetic to him at their first meeting.
It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.
He was so antipathetic toward the way politics ran on this island that he carried a large-calibre automatic pistol holstered under his armpit.
The Correspondent, much to our surprise, had by occasional interjections at the beginning of the discussion showed that he was not antipathetic to Mongolian immigration.
He shifted sideways on the couch, hands held like an advocate attempting to convince an antipathetic jury.
Only a few times in history had man found an alien race so completely antipathetic as was the ezwal.
He wanted the public to be sympathetic rather than antipathetic toward the two lovers.
Greenberg School girls are, as you know, Bitsy, antipathetic toward slime in general.
The doing so will be disagreeable, but it will not be antipathetic to the nature of an Englishman.
I have not the gift of words, but--but I can at least say that you are deeply antipathetic to me.
It had always seemed to Prince Andrew before that he was antipathetic to the Emperor and that the latter disliked his face and personality generally, and in the cold, repellent glance the Emperor gave him, he now found further confirmation of this surmise.
Antipathetic to the inelegant stylelessness of Communism, Kundera longs to produce Nabokovian realms of pure aesthetic bliss.