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repulsive

[ ri-puhl-siv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

causing repugnance or aversion:
a repulsive mask.
Synonyms: distasteful, offensive, disgusting, loathsome
capable of causing repulsion; serving to repulse:
to present enough repulsive force to keep the enemy from daring to attack.
tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding:
arrogant, repulsive airs to frighten the timid.
Physics. of the nature of or characterized by physical repulsion.

repulsive

/ rɪˈpʌlsɪv /

causing or occasioning repugnance; loathsome; disgusting or distasteful
a repulsive sight
tending to repel, esp by coldness and discourtesy
physics concerned with, producing, or being a repulsion

First recorded in 1590–1600; repulse + -ive

He said he had found it repulsive, because to him it had advocated Islamic militancy.

Oh sure, the Super Bowl and all its macho imitators are commemorations of some repulsive male urge best ignored.

They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.

Thomas refused to answer for a while, but now my curiosity was aroused about the repulsive young man below and I pressed him.

In the film, a young schoolgirl in uniform calls Divine sick and repulsive.

A dish of toads of the largest and most repulsive variety used to be offered one by one to the big man's relatives and guests.

This lady was forty years of age, insufferably proud of her pedigree, and in her manners stiff and repulsive.

He thought it very likely, and he wanted to see them—but movement was repulsive to his bulging body.

Unwashed, unshorn, in the loss almost of the aspect of humanity, they became repulsive to each other.

It is not easy to imagine anything more disgusting and repulsive than these priests.

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