FromMiddle Englishrepugnaunt, fromOld Frenchrepugnant, borrowed fromLatinrepugnans, present participle ofrepugnare(“to oppose, to fight against”), fromre-(“back, against”) +pugnare(“to fight”); seepugnacious.
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənt/
- Hyphenation:re‧pug‧nant
repugnant (comparativemorerepugnant,superlativemostrepugnant)
- Offensive orrepulsive;arousingdisgust oraversion.
2006, “Right in Two”, performed byTool:Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here
- (law)Opposed or inconflict.
arepugnant condition
with nouns
- repugnant act
- repugnant nature
- repugnant behavior
- repugnant practice
- repugnant character
- repugnant thing
- repugnant crime
offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion
- Bulgarian:противен (bg)(protiven),отблъскващ (bg)(otblǎskvašt)
- Czech:odporný (cs)
- Dutch:verwerpelijk (nl)
- Finnish:vastenmielinen (fi),iljettävä (fi),inhottava (fi)
- French:répugnant (fr),repoussant (fr)
- Galician:repugnante,noxento
- Georgian:შეუთავსებელი(šeutavsebeli)
- German:abstoßend (de),widerlich (de),widerwärtig (de),abscheulich (de),eklig (de),ekelhaft (de),gräßlich (de),gräulich (de),scheußlich (de),verabscheuenswürdig
- Hungarian:visszataszító (hu),viszolyogtató
- Ido:repugnanta (io),repugniva (io)
- 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)
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(law) opposed or in conflict
- “repugnant”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “repugnant”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatinrepugnantem. First attested in 1803.[1]
repugnant m orf (masculine and feminine pluralrepugnants)
- repugnant,revolting
repugnant
- third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative ofrepugnō
FromOld Frenchrepugnant.
repugnant m (feminine singularrepugnante,masculine pluralrepugnans,feminine pluralrepugnantes)
- repugnant;repulsive
Borrowed fromLatinrepugnans,repugnantem.
repugnant m (oblique and nominative feminine singularrepugnantorrepugnante)
- contradictory
- opposing;adversary
Borrowed fromFrenchrépugnant.
repugnant m orn (feminine singularrepugnantă,masculine pluralrepugnanți,feminine and neuter pluralrepugnante)
- repugnant
