antipathy

antipathy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

Examples of antipathy in a sentence

• Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London...
• Did you ever know me to patronise moonlight walks, or talk even forgivingly of cottages and roses? and have I not a natural antipathy to honeysuckle?1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley...
• [I]t appears that Cyrus [the Younger] would have been victorious, had he been able to repress that passionate burst of antipathy which drove him like a madman against his brother [Artaxerxes II].1853, George Grote, “Cyrus the Younger and the Ten Thousand Greeks”, in History of Greece, volume XI, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part...
• Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.2016 November 4, Spencer Ackerman, “‘The FBI is Trumpland’: Anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say”, in Katharine Viner...

Synonyms of antipathy

• contrariety
• disgust
• enmity
• hatred
• ill feeling
• ill will
• opposition

Antonyms

• sympathy

All synonyms and antonyms of antipathy

Forms of antipathy

Plural of antipathy: antipathies

Origin of antipathy

PIE word *h₂énti Borrowed from Middle French antipathie (“deep dislike; object of dislike; incompatibility between things”) (modern French antipathie (“dislike, antipathy”)), and from its etymon Latin antipathīa (“counteraction; natural aversion, antipathy”), from Ancient Greek ἀντῐπάθειᾰ (antĭpátheiă, “suffering instead”), Koine Greek ἀντῐπάθειᾰ (antĭpátheiă, “contrary affection; contrast; counteraction; opposition”), from ἀντῐπᾰθής (antĭpăthḗs, “(adjective) felt mutually; in return for suffering; (noun) remedy for suffering”) (from ἀντι- (anti-, prefix meaning ‘against’) + πᾰ́θος (pắthos, “death; disaster; misfortune; pain; suffering; strong feeling, emotion, passion, pathos”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind; a bond”) or *kʷendʰ- (“to endure; to suffer”)) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives)) + -ειᾰ (-eiă, suffix forming feminine adjectives and nouns).

Words formed from antipathy

• antipathise
• antipathize
• antipathist
• antipathite
• antipathous

Related words

• antipathetic
• antipathetical
• antipathic
• antipathical
• antipathically
• apathy
• pathetic
• pathos
• sympathy
• bitch eating crackers
• hard feelings
• misanthropy

Questions about antipathy

What does antipathy mean?

Antipathy means 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.

What is antipathy in Tamil?

Antipathy in Tamil is வெறுப்பு, கடும் வெறுப்பு, இயல்பான வெறுப்பு. See Antipathy meaning in Tamil.

How do you use antipathy in a sentence?

Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.

What part of speech is antipathy?

Antipathy is a noun.

How do you pronounce antipathy?

Antipathy is pronounced /ænˈtɪpəθi/ (UK).

What is the plural of antipathy?

The plural of antipathy is antipathies.