Repulsive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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