antipatico

comparative more antipatico · superlative most antipatico

1. Unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.

   They are all business and brusqueness, and they bore us, and are antipatico.

   1909, Ruth Little Mason, The Trailers: a Novel, Fleming H. Revell Company, page 221

   2 more examples

   I must say, even for my own part, that however much I respected German superiority, I thought it a cruel dispensation for the gay-hearted Italian to be made subject to a power so antipatico to him, and it is only the bad use which the Italian made of his transient gleam of liberty, that reconciles me now to the presence of a foreign force.

   1852, Michael Burke Honan, The Personal Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy, page 56

   I can hardly turn on the telly without being confronted by your antipatico manner.

   1994 July 27, Maggie Brown, The Independent

   Antonyms: simpatico