Synonyms:
antipathy, aversion, distaste
Meaning: a feeling of intense dislike
Usage examples
John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.
We know now, the natural antipathy you strove against, and conquered, for her dear sake.
Accordingly he framed his enquiries so as to make the revelation of a latent antipathy as easy as possible.
It fights antipathy and natural aversions so that they may never appear, and seeks even the company of those who might be the object of them.
It was an assemblage of distinct bodies, none of which had any strong sympathy with the rest, and some of which had a positive antipathy for each other.
It is difficult to account for the fondness of Cats for fish, as nature seems to have given them an appetite, which, with their great antipathy to water, they can rarely gratify unassisted.
Miss Stevens had, from the first, conceived a great antipathy to Rose, whom she considered a dangerous rival, and generally avoided, excepting when Mr. Dinsmore was with her; but she always interrupted a tete-a-tete between them when it was in her power to do so without being guilty of very great rudeness.
Their aversion to the flesh of the "unclean beast" is, on the contrary, of that peculiar character, resembling an instinctive antipathy, which the idea of uncleanness, when once it thoroughly sinks into the feelings, seems always to excite even in those whose personal habits are anything but scrupulously cleanly, and of which the sentiment of religious impurity, so intense in the Hindoos, is a remarkable example.