repugnant

See also: répugnant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənt/
• Hyphenation: re‧pug‧nant

Adjective

repugnant (comparative more repugnant, superlative most repugnant)

1. Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
2. (law) Opposed or in conflict.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.

Translations

offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

• Dutch: verwerpelijk (nl)
• Finnish: vastenmielinen (fi), iljettävä (fi), inhottava (fi)
• French: répugnant (fr) m, répugnante (fr) f, repoussant (fr) m, repoussante (fr) f
• Galician: repugnante m, noxento m
• Georgian: შეუთავსებელი (šeutavsebeli)
• German: abstoßend (de), widerlich (de)
• Hungarian: visszataszító (hu), viszolyogtató
• Ido: repugnanta (io), repugniva (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: colach, colúil, cradhscalach, déistineach, míthaitneamhach, samhnasach
• Italian: aborrevole, ripugnante (it)
• Maori: whakarihariha, whakarikarika, whakahouhou, whakaweriweri
• Portuguese: repugnante (pt)
• Romanian: repugnant (ro)
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), отта́лкивающий (ru) (ottálkivajuščij)
• Spanish: repugnante (es)
• Swedish: motbjudande (sv)

(law) opposed or in conflict

• Irish: aimhréireach, in aghaidh, contrártha
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: motstridig

Further reading

• “repugnant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “repugnant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pregnaunt

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Catalan

Adjective

repugnant m or f (masculine and feminine plural repugnants)

1. repugnant, revolting

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) repugnant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of repugnō

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French repugnant.

Adjective

repugnant m (feminine singular repugnante, masculine plural repugnans, feminine plural repugnantes)

1. repugnant; repulsive

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin repugnans, repugnantem.

Adjective

repugnant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular repugnant or repugnante)

1. contradictory
2. opposing; adversary

Descendants

• → English: repugnant
• Middle French: repugnant
  • French: répugnant