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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abhorrent, abjuratory, abnegative, abominable, acrid, adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, awful, balancing, base, beastly, belligerent, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitter, breakaway, caustic, clashing, colliding, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting, contemptible, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, crude, dead against, denying, despicable, despiteful, detestable, differing, disaccordant, disaffirming, disagreeable, disagreeing, disallowing, disavowing, disclaiming, discordant, discrepant, disgusting, disharmonious, disowning, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant, distasteful, divergent, dreadful, enemy, execrable, extraneous, extrinsic, eyeball to eyeball, fetid, forbidding, foreign, foul, fractious, frightful, full of hate, fulsome, ghastly, grating, grisly, gross, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, hostile, ignoble, immiscible, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, inimical, intolerable, inverse, invidious, jangling, jarring, loathsome, malevolent, malicious, malignant, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, negative, negatory, noisome, nonconformist, noncooperative, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obstinate, obverse, odious, offensive, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, overthwart, perverse, quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, rebarbative, recalcitrant, recanting, refractory, renitent, renunciative, renunciatory, repellent, repelling, repudiative, repulsive, resistant, reverse, revocative, revocatory, revolting, revolutionary, revulsive, rival, set against, sickening, sore, spiteful, squared off, stinking, terrible, uncongenial, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpropitious, unsavory, unsympathetic, variant, venomous, vile, virulent, vitriolic

Dictionary Results for repugnant:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

repugnant
    adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
           massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
           "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
           recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable,
           obscene, repugnant, repulsive]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Repugnant \Re*pug"nant\ (-nant), a. [F. r['e]pugnant, or L.
   repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.]
   Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at
   variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient;
   also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually
   followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all
   rudeness was repugnant to her nature.
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         [His sword] repugnant to command.        --Shak.
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         There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less
         repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself.
                                                  --Perkins.
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   Syn: Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent;
        irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

REPUGNANT. That which is contrary to something else; a repugnant condition 
is one contrary to the contract itself; as, if I grant you a house and lot 
in fee, upon condition that you shall not aliens, the condition is repugnant 
and void. Bac. Ab. Conditions, L.

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