antipathous
English
Etymology
Irregularly from either antipathy or Ancient Greek ἀντιπαθής (antipathḗs) + -ous.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ænˈtɪpəθəs/
Adjective
antipathous (comparative more antipathous, superlative most antipathous)
- (obsolete) Synonym of antipathic.
- c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, [The Triumph of Love, scene ii], page 34, column 1:
- What ſublunary miſchief can predominate a wiſe man thus? or doth thy friendſhip play (in this antipathous extreme) with mine, leſt gladneſſe ſuffocate me?
References
- “antipathous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “antipathous, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.