widerwärtig
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German widerwertic, from Old High German widerwart, equivalent to wider (“against”) + -wärtig (adjective suffix denoting position).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈviːdɐˌvɛʁtɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈviːdɐˌvɛʁtɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: wi‧der‧wär‧tig
Adjective edit
widerwärtig (strong nominative masculine singular widerwärtiger, comparative widerwärtiger, superlative am widerwärtigsten)
Declension edit
Positive forms of widerwärtig
Comparative forms of widerwärtig
Superlative forms of widerwärtig
Adverb edit
widerwärtig
- distastefully
- abominably
- Der Weise antwortete: Du hast dich in der menschlichen Gesellschaft widerwärtig benommen. ― The priest answered: You have behaved abominably in this human society.
- repulsively
Further reading edit
- “widerwärtig” in Duden online
- “widerwärtig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (2002), “widerwärtig”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN