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• s  (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
  antipathetic to new ideas
• s  characterized by antagonism or antipathy
  antipathetic factions within the party

• Something of great import to all Cuba leaked out of President Roosevelt's Warm Springs swimming pool last week: able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the .
• The Chinese political leaders are not entirely antipathetic to these plans, but insist that if they are only left to themselves they can deal with the present political situation.
• Andr Gide found himself growing more and more antipathetic to the orthodox ''revolutionary" line: "The spirit which is today held to be counter-revolutionary is that same .

• antipathetical
• averse
• indisposed
• loath
• loth
• antagonistic

Quotes

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• Alexander Downer in The Australian
  Downer told The Weekend Australian: "Dick Woolcott can do what he likes with his correspondence; his antipathetic views of the Government are well known."