'Repugnant' definitions:
Definition of 'repugnant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, repugnant, repulsive]
Definition of 'Repugnant'
From: 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. [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]
Synonyms of 'repugnant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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