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antipathy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antipátheia), noun of state from ????????? (antipath?s, opposed in feeling), from ???? (antí, against) + root of ????? (páthos, feeling).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æn?t?p??i/
  • Hyphenation: an?tip?athy

Noun

antipathy (countable and uncountable, plural antipathies)

  1. A feeling of dislike (normally towards someone, less often towards something); repugnance or distaste.
    • 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
      Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
    • June 1917, The National Geographic Magazine Volume 31, No. 6, Our State Flowers/The Sagebrush
      The sagebrush belongs to the composite family, and its immediate cousins are widely distributed. They are known as the artemisias, and there are a host of them, many with important uses in the economy of civilization. Artemisia absinthium is popularly known as wormwood; from it comes the bitter, aromatic liquor known as eau or crême d'absinthe. Many of its cousins grow in Asia and Europe, including the mugwort, used by the Germans as a seasoning in cookery; southernwood, used by the British to drive away moths from linen and woolens and to force newly swarmed bees, which have a peculiar antipathy for it, into the hive
  2. Natural contrariety or incompatibility

Usage notes

  • Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

Synonyms

  • (dislike): : hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

Antonyms

  • sympathy

Related terms

  • antipathetic
  • antipathetical
  • antipathize

Translations

Further reading

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

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annihilate

English

Etymology

From Latin annihil? (I reduce to nothing), from ad (to) + nihil (nothing).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??na??.le?t/

Verb

annihilate (third-person singular simple present annihilates, present participle annihilating, simple past and past participle annihilated)

  1. To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
    An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
  2. (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
  3. (archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
  4. (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.

Synonyms

  • (to reduce to nothing): benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish
  • See also Thesaurus:destroy

Antonyms

  • (to reduce to nothing): create, generate

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

annihil?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of annihil?

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