| 单词 | repugnance |
| 释义 | repugnance (once / 2060 pages) 1n 2n Repugnance means strong distaste for something. If you love animals, you probably feel repugnance for people who mistreat their horses. The word repugnance comes from Latin root words, re, meaning back, and pugnare, to fight. When we use repugnance, we don't just mean the feeling of fighting back or resisting, but also a feeling of horror or sickness that causes you to resist in the first place. If something grosses you out, you feel repugnance for it. Repugnance can also express a feeling of moral horror: you probably feel repugnance at photographs of torture. WORD FAMILYrepugnance: repugnances+/repugnant: repugnance, repugnantly USAGE EXAMPLESTheir repugnance is a moral test, for the filmmaker and for viewers alike. The New Yorker(Nov 12, 2016) Somehow, a physical break-in sparks visceral repugnance in a way that hacking into computer accounts does not. Washington Post(Oct 28, 2016) His very repugnance to some may be the measure of a democracy doing its gruesome work. The New Yorker(Oct 18, 2016) 1 n intense aversion 2Syn|Hyper horror, repulsion, revulsion disgust strong feelings of dislike n the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time Syn|Hyper incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness contradictoriness the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist |
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