If something's repulsive, it's so disgusting you don't want to go near it. You may find rotting meat repulsive, but maggots find it delicious. To each its own!
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent;
Adjective S.
so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
Adjective S.
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"
a.
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
force.
a.
Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.
Repulsive
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood.2.
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent;
Usage Examples
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.