Synonyms for repulsive
rɪˈpʌl sɪvre·pul·sive

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1. repulsiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   vile, repellent, disgusting

   Antonyms:
   attractive

2. repulsiveadjective

   tending to rouse aversion or to repulse

   Synonyms:
   vile, disgusting, repellent

   Antonyms:
   attractive

3. repulsiveadjective

   having the capacity to repel

   Synonyms:
   repellent, vile, disgusting

   Antonyms:
   attractive

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1. repulsive

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

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1. repulsive

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revolting

   Antonyms:
   charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant

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1. 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, salacious

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

2. repulsive(a)adjective

   possessing the ability to repel

   "a repulsive force"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

3. hideous, repulsiveadjective

   so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

   "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

   Synonyms:
   detestable, repugnant, repulsive(a), outrageous, horrific, obscene, horrid, abhorrent, hideous

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, inoffensive

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1. repulsiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   repelling, repellent

2. repulsiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   odious, hateful, unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, offensive, forbidding, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, revolting

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1. repulsiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   repellent, offensive, forbidding, revolting

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1. List of paraphrases for "repulsive":

   repugnant, disgusting, repellent, repulsion, abhorrent, loathsome, revolting, filthy, bad-looking, odious, unsavory, off-putting, sickening, appalling, distasteful

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1. Gael García Bernal:

   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.

2. Charlotte Brontë:

   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.

3. Kim Burch:

   It's sad. It's really sad, if we had known this was going on, we would have never let him join this fraternity. I never in my life thought I was sending a 17-year-old kid off to end up two months later gone. It's repulsive. He would have been better off joining the Marines and going to war.

4. Thomas Robb:

   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.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.