repulsive

[US]/rɪ'pʌlsɪv/
[UK]/rɪ'pʌlsɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. causing strong dislike or disgust, hateful

Phrases & Collocations

repulsive force

Example Sentences

a repulsive appearance

the repulsive galère of Lolita's admirers.

He was utterly repulsive to her.

She found the idea deeply repulsive.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed and repulsive to common sense,it is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Dissociation occurs on the ground electric state or on a repulsive state after UV excitation was investigated by multimass ion imaging techniques.

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