Repugnant

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repugnant \Re*pug"nant\ (-nant), a. [F. r['e]pugnant, or L.
     repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See {Repugn}.]
     Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at
     variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient;
     also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually
     followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all


     rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
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           [His sword] repugnant to command.        --Shak.
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           There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less
           repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself.
                                                    --Perkins.
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     Syn: Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent;
          irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repugnant
       adj : offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
             massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
             "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
             recent novels" [syn: {abhorrent}, {detestable}, {obscene},
              {repulsive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  201 Moby Thesaurus words for "repugnant":
     abhorrent, abjuratory, abnegative, abominable, acrid, adversary,
     adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti,
     antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes,
     at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, awful, balancing,
     base, beastly, belligerent, below contempt, beneath contempt,
     bitter, breakaway, caustic, clashing, colliding, compensating,
     competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, contemptible,
     contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive,
     contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter,
     counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing,
     counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross,
     crotchety, crude, dead against, denying, despicable, despiteful,
     detestable, differing, disaccordant, disaffirming, disagreeable,
     disagreeing, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, discordant,
     discrepant, disgusting, disharmonious, disowning, disproportionate,
     dissentient, dissident, dissonant, distasteful, divergent,
     dreadful, enemy, execrable, extraneous, extrinsic,
     eyeball to eyeball, fetid, forbidding, foreign, foul, fractious,
     frightful, full of hate, fulsome, ghastly, grating, grisly, gross,
     gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, hostile,
     ignoble, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous,
     inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inimical, intolerable,
     inverse, invidious, jangling, jarring, loathsome, malevolent,
     malicious, malignant, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
     nasty, nauseating, nauseous, negative, negatory, noisome,
     nonconformist, noncooperative, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
     obscene, obstinate, obverse, odious, offensive, opponent, opposed,
     opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant,
     out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome,
     rancorous, reactionary, rebarbative, recalcitrant, recanting,
     refractory, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repellent,
     repelling, repudiative, repulsive, resistant, reverse, revocative,
     revocatory, revolting, revolutionary, revulsive, rival,
     set against, sickening, sore, spiteful, squared off, stinking,
     terrible, uncongenial, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly,
     ungenial, unharmonious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpropitious,
     unsavory, unsympathetic, variant, venomous, vile, virulent,
     vitriolic
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPUGNANT. That which is contrary to something else; a repugnant condition 
  is one contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot 
  in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliens, the condition is repugnant 
  and void. Bac. Ab. Conditions, L.