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Definition of antipathy:

  • (noun) a feeling of intense dislike
  • (noun) the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy"

Sentence Examples:

His antipathies will be readily assuaged.

Spiders have a natural antipathy to toads.

Our antipathies doubtless often tempt to falsify.

Prying had an antipathy to that sect.

Pennant had an unaccountable antipathy to wigs.

He has no insuperable antipathy to Home Rule.

He had taken a great antipathy to slavers.

John Wood has the same antipathy to malt.

Hathaway, and the antipathy was cordially returned.

This antipathy to the crank quite overpowered him.

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange.

He was a creature of unreasoning antipathies and attractions.

That seeming antipathy to yourself is a good omen.

They seem to have an especial antipathy to the latter.

He seemed to have a constitutional antipathy to those bungalows.

There was a muffled, secret antipathy between them.

Dislike, repugnance, aversion, antipathy, abomination, detestation, abhorrence, hatred.

Abomination, horror, detestation, hatred, loathing, disgust, antipathy, aversion.

Mountains are her abhorrence, distant views her antipathy.

I had rheumatism and a natural antipathy to solitude.

Sometimes Antipathies in Nature have strange and unaccountable Effects.

Mutual antipathy caused recriminations, and the hostility became open.

The antipathy that ensued took away all hope of succession.

Extravagance was its horror and ostentation its antipathy.

Among her numerous antipathies, Mademoiselle de Corandeuil detested a beard.

After a week the aristocrat's antipathy passed all bounds.

They seem to me to have an unconquerable antipathy to them.

To what cause are we to ascribe so strange an antipathy?

"I conceived an excessive antipathy against the human species."

Describe cases of mammals showing antipathy to certain colors.

She felt that antipathy was preparing to displace love.

I have, however, gradually surmounted antipathies I once thought insurmountable.

He liked to watch the germination and growth of antipathies.

His ancient antipathy against Dion became more vehement than ever.

The other jurors did not seem to feel any antipathy.

It was not a mere antipathy; fear mingled largely in it.

My habits are certainly quite as tenacious as my cousin's antipathies.

I feel an antipathy to nothing but to weakness and vulgarity.

The intimate charm of the domesticity subdued his logical antipathies.

It was one of those antipathies as unquestionable as they are unaccountable.

By antipathy to other planets it cures the French pox.

The geyser of his prejudice and antipathy was furiously alive.

Vengeance upon external or Nationalist rebels is incited by racial antipathy.

No pains were taken to fill me with scruples and antipathies.

The liberality of the hand is here unrestrained by religious antipathies.

Some of his antipathies have stamped themselves indelibly upon literary history.

Hatred and antipathy had barred all the avenues to a mediation.

It alone can effectually remove the national antipathies which still exist.

Their laziness and unequivocal antipathy to work is as true as proverbial.

"She evidently has an antipathy for me," mused Van Berg.

His great antipathy for this man is mingled with jealousy.

He prefers to be detested, to be feared, to excite a puzzled antipathy.

"I suppose it's just species antipathy, but they make me uncomfortable."

What could an antipathy be that made a young man a recluse!

No abatement on the score of personal antipathy needs to be made.

Never again shall we be taunted with secret antipathy to free institutions.

These fierce antipathies warped his judgment in strange and unexpected ways.

Cried the surgeon, with a sort of unaccountable antipathy and fear.

I tell you again, your judgment is warped by your antipathy to Waldemar.

With eyes lowered in antipathy, he seemed to avoid her gaze with loathing.

It was the sense of his helplessness that sharpened his antipathy.

An excessively "good hater," his pet antipathies are generally bad things.

He has a natural antipathy to pomp, and swagger, and fierce demeanor.

A strong feeling of racial antipathy to the Germans pervades the chronicle.

Her antipathies as well as her sympathies are quick, lively, and tenacious.

The risks, liabilities, and antipathies of trade, were deemed unsuited to their duties.

Pliny wrote of the alleged antipathy between diamond and goat's blood.

All the old wounds were opened, all the old antipathies aggravated.

That sentiment suggested, naturally, antipathy to wealthy bosses and "grain gamblers."

He felt an instinctive, almost a fanatical, antipathy toward the new agent.

Sympathies and antipathies are but synonyms of prejudice, and indifference is impossible.

She thought of the girl with a mingling of antipathy and confidence.

He was astonished, naively, and he suffered from her antipathy to them.

For some time past she had felt that antipathy prowling about her.

She studied, though abstractedly, the settling look of antipathy on his face.

The Canadians have a great antipathy to the inhabitants of the United States.

You know, doctor, I have a natural antipathy to all swamps and morasses.

The antipathy thus engendered was highly important, in case of an outside attack.

Jeremy had refused to come; he had a most unreasonable antipathy to parsons.

Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.

He early felt the true Tory antipathy to Dutchmen and to moneyed men.

They had been partial and capricious in their friendships and in their antipathies.

The traditional antipathy of the rhinoceros to the elephant seems to be mythical.

Chesterton seems to obey a negative magnetism and orients himself by his antipathies.

There was nothing in this fair and womanly figure to inspire antipathy, surely.

An insuperable antipathy filled his heart, but courteous words were on his lips.

In spite of the antipathy which is aroused, "The Cherry Orchard" is quite inoffensive.

"No, they merely tell their opinions, their heated antipathies toward the belligerents."

It is strange how sickness and disease disarm our antipathy and remove our prejudices.

He had, too, a natural antipathy to musk, of which her garments were redolent.

Now, that is a physic to which I have always had an intense antipathy.

They everywhere overcame the antipathy for the foreigner, and made us cordially welcome.

The misery in the man's face killed the last vestige of Ray's antipathy.

The antipathy shewn to Owls by every species of day bird is extreme.

It required all the authority of the court to repress antipathies so openly avowed.

The ancient antipathy against the Military Governor was only intensified the more.

The stronghold of the deterministic sentiment is the antipathy to the idea of chance.

Now I have always had a peculiar antipathy to moths, the big furry sort.

However, he was too fair-minded not to combat such an antipathy so far unwarranted.

There was neither racial antipathy nor abhorrence of the religion of Mohammed to overcome.