repulsive.

1. Arousing strong disgust or aversion.

2. Acting to push or drive bodies, charges, or other entities away from one another.

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Words that belong together

• a repulsive odor
• a repulsive spectacle

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A repulsive odor clung to the cloth after it dried.

The narrator called the spectacle repulsive but could not yet explain its mechanism.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more repulsive; superlative most repulsive where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.