adj
Meaning 1
Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
repugnant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹɪˈpʌɡnənt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Opposed or in conflict.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
Examples
- a repugnant condition
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
offensive to the mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an abhorrent deed
- the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee
- morally repugnant customs
- repulsive behavior
- the most repulsive character in recent novels
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English repugnaunt, from Old French repugnant, borrowed from Latin repugnans, present participle of repugnare (“to oppose, to fight against”), from re- (“back, against”) + pugnare (“to fight”); see pugnacious. By surface analysis, re- + Latin pugn + -ant.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: противен (protiven) — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Bulgarian: отблъскващ (otblǎskvašt) — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Czech: odporný — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Dutch: verwerpelijk — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Finnish: vastenmielinen — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Finnish: iljettävä — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Finnish: inhottava — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- French: répugnant — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- French: repoussant — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Galician: repugnante — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Galician: noxento — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Georgian: შეუთავსებელი (šeutavsebeli) — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: abstoßend — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: widerlich — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: widerwärtig — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: abscheulich — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: eklig — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: ekelhaft — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: gräßlich — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: gräulich — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: scheußlich — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- German: verabscheuenswürdig — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Hungarian: visszataszító — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Hungarian: viszolyogtató — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Ido: repugnanta — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Ido: repugniva — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: colach — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: colúil — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: cradhscalach — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: déistineach — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: míthaitneamhach — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Irish: samhnasach — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Italian: aborrevole — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Italian: ripugnante — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Māori: whakarihariha — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Māori: whakarikarika — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Māori: whakahouhou — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Māori: whakaweriweri — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Portuguese: repugnante — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Romanian: repugnant — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Russian: отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Russian: отта́лкивающий (ottálkivajuščij) — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Spanish: repugnante — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Swedish: motbjudande — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Turkish: uyuz — offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Bulgarian: противопоставящ се (protivopostavjašt se) — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: widerstrebend — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: fremdartig — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: widersprechend — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: widrig — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: im Gegensatz stehend zu — (law) opposed or in conflict
- German: im Widerspruch stehend zu — (law) opposed or in conflict
- Irish: aimhréireach — (law) opposed or in conflict
- Irish: in aghaidh — (law) opposed or in conflict
- Irish: contrártha — (law) opposed or in conflict
- Swedish: motstridig — (law) opposed or in conflict