antipathy

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
[U, C, usually sing.] (plural antipathies) ~ (between A and B)
~ (to / toward(s) sb/sth) (formal) a strong feeling of dislike: personal / mutual / general antipathy + a growing antipathy towards the idea + His professional judgement was coloured by his personal antipathies.
antipathetic sth): antipathetic to change

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

deep, profound, strong, violent | growing, increasing | mutual

They have a mutual antipathy to each other.

| personal

Despite his personal antipathy to me he was still able to be polite.

| natural

a natural antipathy towards people in authority

VERB + ANTIPATHY

feel, have | express, show

PREP.

~ between

There was a lot of antipathy between the two doctors.

| ~ for

his antipathy for his boss

| ~ to/towards

I feel a profound antipathy to using any weapon.