Bookmark the Dictionary of Words Online

repugnant definition from the Dictionary of Words

Home Contact us New words
Web Images MP3/Audio Video Directory News
Help
Terms of Service
RESULTS IN:    English Spanish

Found 4 hits - Term: repugnant, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
repugnant \repug"nant\ -nant, a. f. r'epugnant, 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.
   1913 webster

         his sword repugnant to command.        --shak.
   1913 webster

         there is no breach of a divine law but is more or less
         repugnant unto the will of the lawgiver, god himself.
                                                  --perkins.
   1913 webster

   syn: opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent;
        irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
        1913 webster
see also:
repugn 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
abhorrent detestable obscene repulsive 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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




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




Results 1 - 1 of 1 found about repugnant:

Repugnant >> R Words
Repugnant, definition of term: Repugnant
repugnant_pag1.html


Last accessed:2008/10/11 11:49:40 [Total processing time: 1 seconds]
Myspace Layouts for Girls My Space
Middle East Business España México Puerto Rico Costa Rica Argentina Directorio
Dictionary online database provided by dict.org