What is another word for repulsive?
Synonyms for repulsive
rɪˈpʌl sɪvre·pul·sive
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Wiktionary
repulsiveadjective
Synonyms:
vile, repellent, disgustingAntonyms:
attractiverepulsiveadjective
tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
Synonyms:
vile, disgusting, repellentAntonyms:
attractiverepulsiveadjective
having the capacity to repel
Synonyms:
repellent, vile, disgustingAntonyms:
attractive
English Synonyms and Antonyms
repulsive
Synonyms:
awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasantAntonyms:
attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
repulsive
Synonyms:
forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revoltingAntonyms:
charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant
Princeton's WordNet
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsiveadjective
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"
Synonyms:
detestable, execrable, raunchy, odious, repugnant, repulsive(a), abhorrent, obscene, lewd, abominable, hideous, salaciousAntonyms:
inoffensive, beautifulrepulsive(a)adjective
possessing the ability to repel
"a repulsive force"
Antonyms:
inoffensive, beautifulhideous, repulsiveadjective
so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
"a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
Synonyms:
detestable, repugnant, repulsive(a), outrageous, horrific, obscene, horrid, abhorrent, hideousAntonyms:
beautiful, inoffensive
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
repulsiveadjective
repulsiveadjective
Synonyms:
odious, hateful, unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, offensive, forbidding, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, revolting
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
repulsiveadjective
Synonyms:
repellent, offensive, forbidding, revolting
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "repulsive":
repugnant, disgusting, repellent, repulsion, abhorrent, loathsome, revolting, filthy, bad-looking, odious, unsavory, off-putting, sickening, appalling, distasteful
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7689 | ugly | |
#14061 | shocking | |
#14856 | grim | |
#17155 | outrageous | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#18616 | unpleasant | |
#19359 | filthy | |
#19434 | obscene | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#26052 | horrific | |
#27379 | vile | |
#28256 | raunchy | |
#28533 | deterrent | |
#28746 | repellent | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#29891 | appalling | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#37348 | horrid | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#45066 | unattractive | |
#45987 | lewd | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#48458 | sickening | |
#51404 | abominable | |
#53901 | repulsion | |
#54515 | frightful | |
#55326 | repugnant | |
#55808 | disagreeable | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#57592 | odious | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#58305 | revolting | |
#65966 | loathsome | |
#74271 | abhorrent | |
#75889 | unsavory | |
#97969 | detestable | |
#98549 | uncouth | |
#101175 | salacious | |
#121797 | ungainly | |
#143060 | execrable | |
#212513 | unlovely |
How to use repulsive in a sentence?
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.
This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse.
I don't agree with these comments I find them repulsive.
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.
This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind The Trump campaign. overall, we do like Donald Trump nationalist views and Donald Trump words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It’s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there’s things you disagree with.
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