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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repugnant \Re*pug"nant\ (-nant), adjective [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.
[His sword] repugnant to command. --Shak.
There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. --Perkins.
Syn: Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repugnant
adjective: 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}, {repulsive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "repugnant": 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
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