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antipathic

antipathic adjective: characterized by antipathy.

Adjective (1)

antipathic (comparative more antipathic, superlative most antipathic)

  1. Characterized by antipathy.

Adjective (2)

antipathic (comparative more antipathic, superlative most antipathic)

  1. Directly counteracting a symptom or pathological process.
    • The source of all these pernicious results of palliative antipathic treatment, and the salutary effects proceeding from the reverse method, the homœopathic, will be sufficiently explained in the following observations which are drawn from experience and a number of facts that have hitherto escaped...1833, S[amuel] Hahnemann, translated by Charles H. Devrient, “Organon of Medicine”, in The Homœopathic Medical Doctrine, or, “Organon of the Healing Art;” a New System of Physic, […], Dublin...
    • This sham and duplicity cannot be longer excused or tolerated. Those who recommend and bodily use antipathic methods should announce themselves as allopaths and train with that school of practice, and no longer misrepresent and dishonor the homeopathic system.1906 October, “Homeopathy vs. Anti-pathy”, in H[enry] C[lay] Allen, editor, The Medical Advance and Journal of Homeopathics, volume XLIV, number 10, Batavia, Ill.: J[ames] E. Forrest, →OCLC...

antipathic meaning in Tamil

antipathic in Tamil

நேர் எதிர்ப்பண்புடைய, நேரெதிர்க்குறிகளையுடைய

Synonyms of antipathic

Forms of antipathic

comparativemore antipathic
superlativemost antipathic

Origin of antipathic

From French antipathique. By surface analysis, anti- + -pathic.

Perhaps independently from anti- + -pathic, after German antipatisch.

Words formed from antipathic

Questions about antipathic

What does antipathic mean?
Antipathic means characterized by antipathy.
What is antipathic in Tamil?
Antipathic in Tamil is நேர் எதிர்ப்பண்புடைய, நேரெதிர்க்குறிகளையுடைய. See Antipathic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is antipathic?
Antipathic is an adjective.

Words near antipathic in the dictionary

  1. antipatherian
  2. antipathetic
  3. antipathetical
  4. antipathetically
  5. antipatheticalness
  6. antipathic
  7. antipathical
  8. antipathically
  9. antipathid
  10. antipathids
  11. antipathies

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