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panic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pæn?k/
- Rhymes: -æn?k
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Alternative forms
- panick (obsolete)
Adjective
panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)
- (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
Noun
panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)
- (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
- (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
- (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.
Translations
Related terms
- panicky
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Noun
panic
- (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.
Synonyms
- panicgrass, panic grass
Anagrams
- cap'in, incap
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa??t?s]
- Hyphenation: pa?nic
Noun
panic m anim (feminine panna)
- male virgin
Declension
Related terms
- panna f
- pán m
- paní f
Further reading
- panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.nik/
Noun
panic m (plural panics)
- (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass
Synonyms
- pied-de-coq
- patte de poule
- crête de coq
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?it?s/
Noun
panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)
- male virgin
Declension
Derived terms
- panický
- panicky
- panickos?, panictvo
Related terms
- panna f
Further reading
- panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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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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