repulsive

Speech parts

1. repulsive - Adjective

2. repulsive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

obscene disgusting repellent hideous vile abhorrent repugnant detestable quasimodo frightful rancid magnetic bad offensive cool
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Antonyms

attractive galilee bonnie leger archangel foxy
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Phrases with the word

be repulsive extremely repulsive repulsive odor repulsive odour be repulsive to very repulsive

Anagrams

prelusive pulverise

Examples

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. Ambrose Bierce

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. David Bowie

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. George Santayana

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. Ford Madox Ford

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane. Stephen Fry

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. William Thomson

Close letter words and terms

repulsingly repulsion repulsion motor repulsive force repulsive girl repulsive odor