英语词汇“repugnant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	repugnant
释义	re·pug·nant \-gnənt\ adjective Etymology: Middle English repugnaunt, from Middle French repugnant, from Latin repugnant-, repugnans, present participle of repugnare to resist, from re- + pugnare to fight — more at pugnacious 1. : characterized by opposition and especially contradictory opposition : incompatible, inconsistent, opposed < where there are repugnant provisions in a statute the one last in order shall … govern — Roscoe Pound > < the statute … is repugnant to the Constitution — C.P.Curtis > < such procedure was repugnant to fair employment practices — Dwight Macdonald > 2. archaic : disposed to fight against something : making or offering resistance : hostile < tempering the repugnant mass — P.B.Shelley > 3. : distasteful to a high degree : exciting distaste or aversion : loathsome, objectionable, repulsive < unclean and repugnant food — Willa Cather > < one custom repugnant to nature — G.G.Coulton > < found the idea thoroughly repugnant to him > Synonyms: see hateful, offensive
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