repugnant

See also: répugnant

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənt/
• Hyphenation: re‧pug‧nant

Adjective

repugnant (comparative more repugnant, superlative most repugnant)

1. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
2. (law) Opposed or in conflict.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.

Related terms

► English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewǵ-‎ (0 c, 9 e)

Translations

offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

• Dutch: verwerpelijk (nl)
• Finnish: vastenmielinen (fi), iljettävä (fi), inhottava (fi)
• French: répugnant (fr) m, répugnante (fr) f, repoussant (fr) m, repoussante (fr) f
• Galician: repugnante m, noxento m
• Georgian: შეუთავსებელი (šeutavsebeli)
• German: abstoßend (de), widerlich (de), widerwärtig (de), abscheulich (de), eklig (de), ekelhaft (de), gräßlich (de), gräulich (de), scheußlich (de), verabscheuenswürdig
• Hungarian: visszataszító (hu), viszolyogtató
• Ido: repugnanta (io), repugniva (io)

• Irish: colach, colúil, cradhscalach, déistineach, míthaitneamhach, samhnasach
• Italian: aborrevole, ripugnante (it)
• Maori: whakarihariha, whakarikarika, whakahouhou, whakaweriweri
• Portuguese: repugnante (pt)
• Romanian: repugnant (ro)
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), отта́лкивающий (ru) (ottálkivajuščij)
• Spanish: repugnante (es)
• Swedish: motbjudande (sv)

(law) opposed or in conflict

• German: widerstrebend (de), fremdartig (de), widersprechend (de), widrig (de), im Gegensatz stehend zu, im Widerspruch stehend zu
• Irish: aimhréireach, in aghaidh, contrártha

• Swedish: motstridig (sv)

Further reading

• repugnant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repugnant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• pregnaunt

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin repugnāns, attested from 1803.

Adjective

repugnant (masculine and feminine plural repugnants)

1. repugnant, revolting

Related terms

• repugnància
• repugnar

Further reading

• “repugnant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “repugnant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “repugnant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Latin

Verb

repugnant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of repugnō

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French repugnant.

Adjective

repugnant m (feminine singular repugnante, masculine plural repugnans, feminine plural repugnantes)

1. repugnant; repulsive

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin repugnans, repugnantem.

Adjective

repugnant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular repugnant or repugnante)

1. contradictory
2. opposing; adversary

Descendants

• → English: repugnant
• Middle French: repugnant
  • French: répugnant