Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fixed dislike:
Русский
By meaning 1
fixed dislike:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fixed dislike:

Examples

13 sentences
  1. She felt an aversion to him.

    ruОна чувствовала к нему отвращение. — Wezel

  2. I developed an aversion toward seafood.

    ruУ меня выработалось отвращение к морепродуктам. — Selena777

  3. Arrogance has always been my pet aversion.

    deArroganz war mir immer ein besonderes Gräuel. — Dani6187

Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.

    Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.

    Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.

    Abneigung, Vorbehalt, Widerwillen

    отвраще́ниеotvraščénije, неприя́тиеneprijátije, неприя́зньneprijáznʹ

    відра́заvidráza, оги́даohýda, непри́язньneprýjaznʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)An object of dislike or repugnance.

    Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The act of turning away from an object.

    the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.

Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: aversions
Singularaversion
Pluralaversions

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Opposition or repugnance of mind:antipathydisinclinationreluctance
An object of dislike or repugnance:abomination
Close in meaning
  • a feeling of intense dislike:antipathydistaste
  • the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away:averting

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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