repulsive
US: /ɹiˈpəɫsɪv/
UK: /ɹɪpˈʌlsɪv/
UK: /ɹɪpˈʌlsɪv/
English Vietnamese dictionary
repulsive /ri'pʌlsiv/
- tính từ
- ghê tởm, gớm guốc
- a repulsive sight: một cảnh tượng gớm guốc
- (thơ ca) chống, kháng cự
- (vật lý) đẩy
- repulsive force: lực đẩy
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) lạnh lùng, xa cách (thái độ)
- ghê tởm, gớm guốc
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 causing a feeling of strong dislike; very unpleasant: a repulsive sight / smell / habit + What a repulsive man!
2 (physics) causing repulsion (= a force that pushes away): repulsive forces
repulsively adverb: repulsively ugly
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
disgusting, revolting, abhorrent, loathsome, repugnant, repellent, offensive, obnoxious, objectionable, gross, unsavoury, distasteful, nasty, unpleasant, displeasing, disagreeable, ugly, off-putting, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, beastly, vile, dreadful, awful, rotten, feculent, foul, odious, horrible, horrid, abominable, execrable, fulsome:
I have seldom had so repulsive an experience as the tour of that abattoir. The repulsive sights and smells were more than I could bear.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look, smell | find sb/sth
ADV.
deeply, extremely
She found the idea deeply repulsive.
| utterly | slightly | morally, sexually
PREP.
to
He was utterly repulsive to her.
Concise English dictionary
rɪ'pʌlsɪv
adj.
+offensive to the mind
+possessing the ability to repel
+so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
