Repugnant Definition

rĭ-pŭgnənt
adjective
Contradictory; inconsistent.
Actions repugnant to his words.
Webster's New World
Causing repugnance; distasteful; offensive; disagreeable.
A repugnant odor.
Webster's New World
Offering resistance; opposed; antagonistic.
Repugnant forces.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Repugnant

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English antagonistic from Old French from Latin repugnāns repugnant- present participle of repugnāre to fight against repugn

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Repugnant Sentence Examples

  • It was, however, profoundly repugnant to him.

  • What I find repugnant, however, is the lack of honesty.

  • He appears to have been especially chagrined because the crown lands were not his personal property, but the whole of the new arrangements were repugnant to him.

  • The story is in both cases more human and less repugnant than the, in some respects, similar story of Griselda.

  • The problem cannot be approached from modern preconceptions because there was much associated with the worship of Yahweh which only gradually came to be recognized as repugnant, and there was much in earlier ages and in other lands which reflects an elevated and even complex religious philosophy.

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RREREP

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TNTANT

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