repulsive

3 definitions found

repulsive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r['e]pulsif.]
     1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
        force.
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              Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
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     2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.
        [1913 Webster] -- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. --
        Re*pul"sive*ness, n.
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repulsive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, repulsive]
      2: possessing the ability to repel; "a repulsive force" [ant:
         attractive(a)]
      3: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a
         repulsive mask" [syn: hideous, repulsive]

repulsive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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