repugnant
pronunciation
How to pronounce repugnant in British English:
UK [rɪˈpʌgnənt]
How to pronounce repugnant in American English:
US [rɪˈpʌɡnənt]
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- Adjective:
- offensive to the mind
Word Origin
- repugnant
- repugnant: see pugnacious
- repugnant (adj.)
- late 14c., "contrary, contradictory," from Old French repugnant "contradictory, opposing" or directly from Latin repugnantem (nominative repugnans), present participle of repugnare "to resist, fight back, oppose; disagree, be incompatible," from re- "back" (see re-) + pugnare "to fight" (see pugnacious). Meaning "distasteful, objectionable" is from 1777.
Example
- 1. I am very really repugnant you .
- 2. In the study by najmi and her colleagues , 20 persons diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder ( ocd ) and 20 control subjects without a mental disorder were asked to think a particular thought that was highly repugnant to them .
- 3. In france , repugnant speech isn 't just repugnant but illegal .
- 4. Any war would be morally repugnant .
- 5. Huang taixi most repugnant is anything .