repugnant
See also: répugnant
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
repugnant (comparative more repugnant, superlative most repugnant)
Usage notesEdit
- Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
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(law) opposed or in conflict
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Further readingEdit
- repugnant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- repugnant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin repugnāns, attested from 1803.[1]
AdjectiveEdit
repugnant (masculine and feminine plural repugnants)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “repugnant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
repugnant
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French repugnant.
AdjectiveEdit
repugnant m (feminine singular repugnante, masculine plural repugnans, feminine plural repugnantes)
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin repugnans, repugnantem.
AdjectiveEdit
repugnant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular repugnant or repugnante)