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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance: antipathetic to new ideas.
  2. adj. Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic: antipathetic factions within the party.
  3. adj. Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant: "The whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her” ( Anthony Trollope).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having a natural antipathy, contrariety, or constitutional aversion: with to.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having or showing a strong aversion or repugnance
  2. adj. Opposed in nature or character; antagonistic
  3. adj. Causing a feeling of antipathy; repugnant

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by antagonism or antipathy
  2. adj. (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed

Examples

  • “Schoenfeld is "antipathetic" to the New York Times.”

    Power Line

  • “On the larger issue: Given that the Iranians and the Arabs (1) speak totally unrelated languages and (2) subscribe to antipathetic versions of Islam, is there any real likelihood that they will ever pursue a coordinated policy toward the West for any length of time?”

    Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq

  • “The "detective" comment is particularly interesting here, because I think there's a * strong* vein of contemporary strange fiction in the "infusion fantasy" mode (see the "Seams" post) where the warping of the worldscape is, like much SF, a metaphoric modeling of society (and (post) modernity), where the worldscape is not sympathetic or antipathetic but ... argued and arguable and in argument.”

    A Theory of Modes and Modalities

  • “They are merely antipathetic to the emotional state they place them in.”

    No empathy for empathy

  • “Not only does this keep Lebanon rightfully antipathetic towards Israel, it continues in the minds of many to legitimize the existence of a resistance movement, Hezbollah.”

    The Huffington Post: Patrick Galey: Israel, Lebanon and the Fight for Fossil Fuels

  • “It turns out that, unbeknownst to Holly and, um, actually, his name is Eric Messer, but everyone calls him Messer - anyway, Peter and Alison wrote a will giving joint custody of Sophie to the antipathetic godparents.”

    The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Life as We Know It

  • “But Schoenfeld clearly wants a well-known news organization like the New York Times and its journalists, to which he is obviously antipathetic, to be prosecuted to create what lawyers call a chilling effect on the rest of the American news media, persuading them to abdicate their right and responsibility to decide what they publish and broadcast.”

    The Washington Post: Book review: 'Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law' by Gabriel Schoenfeld

  • “On the other hand, those lines are foreign, unintelligible and antipathetic to the mentalities of the Arab communites that represent the large majority in the country.”

    Prophesying Palestine

  • “Additionally, the huge group of recent immigrants to America were Scots-Irish, antipathetic to the crown for good reason.”

    It’s Patriots’ Day

  • “For the first half of her campaign it allowed women to see Clinton as representative of the masculine norm from whom they could feel distant or antipathetic without guilt.”

    Simon & Schuster: Big Girls Don’t Cry

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