Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pulsif.]
1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
force.
[1913 Webster]
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]
2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
repulsive
adj 1: 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, repugnant]
2: possessing the ability to repel; "a repulsive force" [syn: repulsive(a)]
[ant: attractive(a)]
3: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a
repulsive mask" [syn: hideous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "repulsive":
abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling,
barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crappy, crude, deplorable,
despicable, detestable, diamagnetic, dire, disagreeable,
disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, egregious,
enormous, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant,
flyblown, forbidding, foul, frightful, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, ghastly, gloppy, graveolent, grievous,
grisly, gross, gruesome, gunky, hateful, heinous, hideous, high,
horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ill-smelling, infamous,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic,
miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, monstrous, mucky,
musty, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome,
notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
odorous, of opposite polarity, offensive, olid, ordurous,
outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty,
reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent,
repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, revolting, rotten, sad,
scabby, scandalous, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby,
shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy,
sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smellful, smelling, smelly, sordid,
sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous,
terrible, too bad, ugly, unclean, unpleasant, unsavory, vile,
villainous, vomity, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched,
yecchy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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