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Definition of repulsive : 1. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.
2. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

Synonyms:

detestable, nauseating, lewd, defensive, combative, yielding, forbidding, outrageous, unyielding, execrable, retaliating, insurgent, pugnacious, horrific, unwholesome, pain, stubborn, sickening, opposing, salacious, raunchy, like, aggressive

distasteful, disgusting, nasty, obnoxious, unpalatable, bothersome

rejecting, snubbing, spurning, repelling, rebuffing

depraved, clumsy, rude, chintzy, rough, shameless, coarse, garish, crass, undignified, ignominious, tasteless, glaring, gross, unpolished, sleazy, low, raw, gaudy, brazen, salty, rank, barnyard, crude, common, outlandish, ill-bred, brutish, scandalous, cheap, profane, sordid, animal, philistine, unbecoming, in bad taste, graceless, tawdry, homespun, vulgar, idiomatic, ignoble, obscene, barbaric, degraded, cockney, coarse-grained, unrefined, colloquial, unseemly, broad, boorish, earthy, tactless, base, indelicate

detesting, despising, hateful, loathing, malicious, abhorrent

despicable, contemptible, vile, mean

dire, alarming, ghastly, dreadful, frightful, horrible, appalling, awful, horrid

inelegant, disagreeable, plain, unattractive, unappealing, unaesthetic, grotesque, ugly, undesirable, displeasing, disfigured, odious, unpleasant, ill-looking, unpleasing, repugnant, unlovely, unsightly, hideous, homely, repellent, shapeless

detrimental, abominable, evil, reprehensible, offensive, nefarious, baneful, monstrous, revolting, bad, atrocious, disgraceful, sinister, destructive, terrible, heinous, sinful, wicked, calamitous, damnable, foul, loathsome

oppositional, resistant

Usage examples:

• He was a pitiful spectacle, yet a repulsive, and the Americans despised themselves for the strange impulse they had to kick him out like a dog. - "The Missourian", Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle.
• Her body was to be deformed and repulsive, tall, very lean, and rather dark; and when she walked, her long limbs should gleam through her draperies at every stride she took. - "Hunger", Knut Hamsun.
• Repulsive hadn't exactly said she would die. - "Legacy", James H Schmitz.