different between disdainful vs antipathy
disdainful
English
Etymology
disdain +? -ful
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?de?n.f?l/
Adjective
disdainful (comparative more disdainful, superlative most disdainful)
- Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
- He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
- She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.
Synonyms
- despising, scornful, contemptuous
Antonyms
- respectful
Derived terms
- disdainfully
Translations
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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)
- 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
- 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
- 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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