repugnant

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.

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

repugnant (comparative more repugnant, superlative most repugnant)

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

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

• repugnant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repugnant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• pregnaunt

repugnant (masculine and feminine plural repugnants)

1. repugnant, revolting

repugnant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of repugnō

From Old French repugnant.

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

1. repugnant; repulsive

Borrowed from Latin repugnans, repugnantem.

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

1. contradictory
2. opposing; adversary

• English: repugnant (borrowed)
• Middle French: repugnant
  • French: répugnant