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Meanings of antipathetical in English

(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.

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        Characterized by antagonism or antipathy.

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              Examples for "averse"
              1
              The resulting nuclear crisis sent risk-averse sentiment coursing through global financial markets.
              The Irish Times
              2
              But borrowing costs remained elevated given the broader risk-averse sentiment across markets.
              Reuters
              3
              The election outcome in the euro zone saw some investors turning risk-averse.
              Reuters
              4
              Bonds are seen as relative safe havens when investors become risk averse.
              Reuters
              5
              Perhaps the EU is relaxed and risk-loving, while the UK is risk-averse.
              The South African
              1
              Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
              The Irish Times
              2
              William knows he ought to go home, but he's loath to leave.
              The Guardian
              3
              The heart cries out fiercely for its recompense; is loath to wait.
              Beulah
              4
              Instantly, nothing loath, he found himself in the midst of the fighting.
              Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain
              5
              It fights a titanic struggle, for winter is loath to let go.
              The Guardian
              1
              Steel was nothing loth to find himself in the fresh air again.
              The Crimson Blind
              2
              Sinti in public positions are still loth to admit to their ethnicity.
              The Guardian
              3
              No fear of that.' Lionel was loth to put his playmate down.
              Another part of the wood
              4
              But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move.
              The Valley of the Kings
              5
              The miners seemed loth to eat, being excited by the gold nuggets.
              Merton of the Movies
              1
              I was always interested in chickens, and dosed all the indisposed as:
              Memories and Anecdotes
              2
              The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.
              A History of Science — Volume 4
              3
              If the watchman found him again, he'd just say he was indisposed.
              Casket of Souls
              4
              Write him that I am indisposed, and that will end the matter.
              The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
              5
              The Commission feels indisposed to initiate any movement looking to its suspension.
              Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
              1
              Keep this antipathetic relationship and begin again but now include the action.
              The Michael Chekhov Handbook
              2
              Nor did the two often meet socially since their natures were antipathetic.
              Love Eternal
              3
              As to Costa, I confess that he was always antipathetic to me.
              Youth and Egolatry
              4
              Probably it was some family bond that united two such antipathetic natures.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
              5
              Nothing is more antipathetic to me than a coarse and ignorant anglophobia.
              The Uprising of a Great People / The United States in 1861. to W...
              Usage of antipathetical in English
              1
              But with dissimilitudes no conjunction can be effected, because they are antipathetical.
              The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love / To Which i...
              2
              To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage-notto call it anything stronger-waspositively antipathetical.
              Chopin : the Man and His Music
              3
              But of all Orientals, the most antipathetical companion to an Englishman is, I believe, an East-Indian.
              Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
              4
              He was an antipathetical being, with a peculiar power and gift of treading on everybody's tenderest place.
              The Uncommercial Traveller
              Antipathetical through the time