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antipatico

antipatico adjective: unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.

Adjective

antipatico (comparative more antipatico, superlative most antipatico)

  1. Unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.
    • I must say, even for my own part, that however much I respected German superiority, I thought it a cruel dispensation for the gay-hearted Italian to be made subject to a power so antipatico to him, and it is only the bad use which the Italian made of his transient gleam of liberty, that reconciles...1852, Michael Burke Honan, The Personal Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy, page 56
    • They are all business and brusqueness, and they bore us, and are antipatico.1909, Ruth Little Mason, The Trailers: a Novel, Fleming H. Revell Company, page 221
    Antonyms:
    simpatico

Antonyms of antipatico

Forms of antipatico

comparativemore antipatico
superlativemost antipatico

Origin of antipatico

Borrowed from Italian antipatico.

Questions about antipatico

What does antipatico mean?
Antipatico means unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.
What part of speech is antipatico?
Antipatico is an adjective.

Words near antipatico in the dictionary

  1. antipathogenic
  2. antipathogens
  3. antipathological
  4. antipathous
  5. antipathy
  6. antipatico
  7. antipatriarchal
  8. antipatriarchally
  9. antipatriarchical
  10. antipatriarchy
  11. antipatriot

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