Antonyms for repulsive
rɪˈpʌl sɪvre·pul·sive

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1. repulsiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   attractive

   Synonyms:
   vile, repellent, disgusting

2. repulsiveadjective

   tending to rouse aversion or to repulse

   Antonyms:
   attractive

   Synonyms:
   vile, disgusting, repellent

3. repulsiveadjective

   having the capacity to repel

   Synonyms:
   repellent, vile, disgusting

   Antonyms:
   attractive

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1. repulsive

   Antonyms:
   attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, bonny, charming, comely, delightful, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, graceful, handsome, lovely, picturesque, pretty

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, deformed, disgusting, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, hideous, horrid, odious, shocking, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, ungainly, unlovely, unpleasant

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1. repulsive

   Antonyms:
   charming, agreeable, attract, ive, winning, captivating, fascinating, alluring, seductive, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, deterrent, ungenial, odious, ugly, unattractive, disagreeable, revolting

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1. abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsiveadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

   Synonyms:
   detestable, execrable, raunchy, odious, repugnant, repulsive(a), abhorrent, obscene, lewd, abominable, hideous, salacious

2. repulsive(a)adjective

   possessing the ability to repel

   "a repulsive force"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, beautiful

3. hideous, repulsiveadjective

   so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

   "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"

   Antonyms:
   beautiful, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   detestable, repugnant, repulsive(a), outrageous, horrific, obscene, horrid, abhorrent, hideous

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1. repulsiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   repellent, offensive, forbidding, revolting

How to use repulsive in a sentence?

1. Gael García Bernal:

   This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse.

2. Donald Trump:

   I hate the charge. I find it repulsive, i hate even the question because people that know me -- and you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu, did you hear him, Bibi?

3. Amy Vanderbilt:

   Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

4. Kim Burch:

   It's sad. It's really sad, if we had known this was going on, we would have never let him join this fraternity. I never in my life thought I was sending a 17-year-old kid off to end up two months later gone. It's repulsive. He would have been better off joining the Marines and going to war.

5. George Santayana:

   The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

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