antipathy

Definitions

anti- (against) + path (feeling) = 'feeling against.' Where sympathy is feeling-with, antipathy is feeling-against: a deep, often gut-level dislike. Usually paired with 'toward' or 'between': antipathy toward authority, mutual antipathy.

Common Collocations

• 1.deep antipathy深深的反感
• 2.mutual antipathy相互厌恶
• 3.personal antipathy个人反感

Example Sentences

• 1.

  There was a clear antipathy between the two leaders.

• 2.

  He felt a deep antipathy toward bureaucracy.

• 3.

  Her early antipathy to the city slowly faded.