repulsiveadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈpʌlsɪv/, U.S.

/rəˈpəlsɪv/,

/riˈpəlsɪv/

Forms: late Middle English repulsif, late Middle English repulsyue, 1500s–1600s repulsiue, 1600s– repulsive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French repulsif; Latin repulsivus.

Etymology: < Middle French repulsif (French répulsif ) that repels or resists (c1400; 1705 in physics; 18th cent. in sense ‘disgusting, repellent’) and its etymon post-classical Latin repulsivus that repels, repellent (9th cent., 13th cent. in British sources; 1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin repuls- , past participial stem of repellere repel v. + -īvus -ive suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin repulsivum repellent medicine or application (1363 in Chauliac), ground for rejection (1426 in a British source). Compare repulse v., repulse n., repulsion n., and also repel v., repellent adj.

A. adj.

†1. Medicine. = repercussive adj. 1. Cf. repellent adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off

percussivea1398

repercussivea1398

repulsive?a1425

back-driving1562

repellent1575

revelling1592

depulsivec1615

repercutient1676

repellant1730

derivative1854

derivant1876

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 167^v Þat is seid a medicyne of materie repercussiue or constrictif or interceptif, repulsyue [?c1425 Paris repulsif; L. repulsiua], impulsif, or restrictif..þat impelleþ or putteþ toward þe profoundenez þe humours to which he nyȝheþ nere.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xlii. 51 Then go about to cure the nosethrills, that you may dry vp the matter, with medicines that be repulsiue and discussiue.

1617 W. Est tr. B. Pirckheimer Praise of Gout 20 I instruct them to discerne what is cold and what is hot, what is drie and what is moyst, what is stipticke and what is repulsiue.

1761 J. Chandler Treat. Dis. called Cold (ed. 2) 114 The same aggravated pressure, will exert a repulsive force upon all the circulating humors on the superficies, from head to foot.

1800 A. Willich Lect. Diet & Regimen (ed. 3) 123 Neither was this preventive and repulsive method confined merely to persons who suffered under some bodily disorder.

1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 31 I prefer the mustard plaster to the cups, as I think it produces a better repulsive action.

2. Having the property of repelling or resisting a person or thing; tending to force back, drive away, etc.; repellent. Sometimes with of or to.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > repelling

repulsing1490

repulsive?1574

expulsive1618

propulsive1648

repellent1654

repelling1710

repulsory1727

repellant1780

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing

rebounding1555

rolling1575

repercussive1604

doubling1605

reverberate1608

reparable echo1616

revoicing1631

reverberating1632

rewording1657

re-echoing1668

repeating1685

phonocamptic1694

echoing1702

anacamptic1706

anacamptical1706

reactive1712

rebellowing1712

redoubling1717

repulsive1744

reverberative1807

reverbering1822

reboant1830

echoy1841

reverberant1847

reboantic1853

verberant1864

?1574 T. Hill Contempl. Myst. f. 65 The Baye tree is sildome harmed with the lightning..for so much as it hath thys repulsiue vertue of the lightning through the inner cause.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 66 For the repulsiue hand of Diomed doth not spend His raging darts there.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida v. 133 The bold Flame like a fire, forc'd from repulsive cold, Breaks through the harsh extream of hate.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 192 Repulsive of his Might the Weapon stood.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 111 To the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 56 The desolation of the spot was repulsive to his wishes.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 8 Fences are..plac'd around, (With Tenters tip'd) a strong repulsive bound.

1811 T. Moore By that Lake iv, in Sel. Irish Melodies No. 4 And with rude repulsive shock Hurls her from the beetling rock.

1855 T. J. Vaiden America Vindicated 231 Catholicism..that is ever tenacious of ecclesiastical error, repulsive of rationality.

1860 Proc. Royal Soc. 1859–60 10 535 Hedges, on the contrary, seem to have a repulsive influence on fogs.

1909 Bot. Gaz. 48 76 Acids and alkalies proved repulsive, as in the case of other sperms.

2007 M. O'Hare How to fossilize your Hamster (2008) vii. 190 Repulsive vegetables... Why do cabbage leaves repel water so well?

3. Tending to repel a person by denial, coldness of manner, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable

strange1338

estrangec1374

formal?1518

cold1557

squeamish1561

icy1567

buckrama1589

repulsive1598

starched1600

unaffable1603

stiff1608

withdrawing1611

reserved1612

aloof1639

cool1641

uncordial1643

inaffable1656

staunch1659

standfra1683

distant1710

starcha1716

distancing1749

pokerish1779

buckramed1793

angular1808

easeless1811

touch-me-not1817

starchy1824

standoffish1826

offish1827

poker-backed1830

standoff1837

stiffish1840

chilly1841

unapproachable1848

hedgehoggy1866

sticky1882

hard-to-get1899

stand-away1938

princesse lointaine1957

1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. C2^v Be not discouraged that my daughter.., Like a well fortified and loftie tower, Is so repulsiue and vnapt to yeelde.

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 31 Purposeth he to goe to Christ? his owne conscience giues him a repulsiue answer: no, thou hast betrayed innocent blood.

c1655 in Roxburghe Ballads (1886) VI. 209 The Repulsive Maid, Who Once took a young-man, but now cannot win To open the door, and let him come in.

1792 E. Burke Let. 29 Feb. in Corr. (1968) VII. 81 Nothing can be more completely cold, distant, and even repulsive to me, than the Conduct and manner of Ministers, in this, and in every other point.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vi. 274 She suddenly raised herself, and, with a repulsive gesture, and a countenance of forced serenity, said [etc.].

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. vi. 97 Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth.

1843 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. vi. 233 I could not..receive it in silence, because this would seem cold, unfriendly and repulsive.

1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 43 I ne'er wi' ither bairns gallanted Wha looks repulsive on me slanted.

1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 119 There was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women.

1958 Brit. Jrnl. Educ. Stud. 7 88 It might do much to dispel the notion that the present shortage of mathematicians is due solely to out-dated and repulsive presentation in the schools.

2008 I. Zorko tr. T. Kosmač in T. Priestly Angels beneath Surface 86 She was terribly attractive and at the same time repulsive because of her cold attitude.

4. Physics. Having the property of causing increased separation by a physical force; of the nature of or characterized by repulsion (repulsion n. 3a); = repellent adj. 2a. Opposed to attractive adj. 3a.The only forces of nature that can be repulsive as well as attractive are the electrical and magnetic forces (regarded in Physics as two aspects of the electromagnetic force). Other repulsive forces have been imagined, esp. in Science Fiction (cf. anti-gravity n.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [adjective] > repulsive

repulsive1709

idiorepulsive1828

1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. ii. 43 They would often repeat this alternate rising and falling ; the Attractive and Repulsive forces (whatever they are) exerting themselves as it were by turns.

1718 I. Newton Opticks (ed. 2) iii. i. 363 A repulsive Force by which they fly from one another.

1771 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 198 The balls separated..; and, continuing in a repulsive state, appeared to be electrified negatively.

1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics vi. 69 The space around each atom of a body, through which this repulsive influence extends, is generally limited.

1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 46 If the mutual force had been attractive instead of repulsive..the expression for the work done would be the same as that for the repulsive force, but with reversed sign.

1932 Wonder Stories Q. Spring 311/1 The antigravity apparatus will have to be capable of generating a greater repulsive force than is required for ordinary interplanetary conditions.

2000 J. C. Wheeler Cosmic Catastrophes xi. 227 When the Universe was first born, it had a vacuum energy that did act as a repulsive force, an antigravity, that caused a piece of the Universe to expand rapidly.

5. Arousing intense distaste; disgusting, loathsome.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] > disgusting or repulsive

fulsomec1510

distasteful1607

stinkardly1616

reluctant1663

disgustful1678

fulsamic1694

disgusteda1716

disgustive1740

revolting1773

disgustable1787

repulsive1791

disgusting1839

foul1842

vomitorial1868

untouchable1873

icky1938

gross1959

grody1965

yechy1969

yucky1970

yuck1971

yuck-making1972

gross-out1973

skeevy1976

sleazoid1976

skanky1982

festy1995

mug2009

1791 tr. Siege of Belgrade II. 152 Though she found him repulsive to her nature, she yet could not wish him so great an evil, as that of being united to a wife who could not love him.

1796 Evangelical Mag. 4 128 We shall feel no repulsive quality turning us for a moment from any brother who loves our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

1800 Monthly Rev. Feb. 187 Of the numerous quotations which diversify his [sc. Johnson's] pages, there are few which interest by their elegance; on the contrary, the majority of them are disgusting by their harshness, or repulsive by their obscurity.

1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 314 Presenting itself to the eye of the mind in the repulsive character of an absolutely dark spot.

1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 15 The repulsive plants that are native in the swamp.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xv. 317 There was something so repulsive about the woman.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 299 Balzac..is often repulsive, and not unfrequently dull.

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xii. 184 That such nobility of character could lie beneath so repulsive an exterior never ceased to be a source of wonder and amazement to her.

1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned ii. xxii. 303 The painted face in the coffin, the rather sly hint of a smile (no doubt the mortician's handiword) had been repulsive at the time, but was doubly repulsive now.

1996 Independent 27 Aug. i. 6/6 Most repulsive are a pile of penile rings, made out of the skin and bristly hairs of an indeterminate animal.

†B. n.

1. Medicine. = repercussive n. Cf. repellent n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine repelling or drawing off

repercussivea1398

repulsive?c1425

repercutive?1541

repulser1611

repeller1634

repercusser1634

repellent1661

repriment1684

repellant1689

repercutient1719

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 158 He schal laye þerto anon local medecynes, and nouȝt repulsyues [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. repercussyuez; L. repulsiua] but þoo þat drawen þe matere to the apostemed place.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ix. 222 Those [medicines], which are called repellentia and regerentia repulsiues, and restrictiues.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 17 Whether repulsives may be used?

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xvi. 363 Repulsives or Repellers..are opposed to Attractives.

1703 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd (ed. 2) 639 They are cur'd by promoting Suppuration, and avoiding Repulsives.

1829 N.Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 101 He kept up and exasperated the disease by means of bark, purgatives, and the most violent repulsives.

1853 Western Lancet Sept. 530 I now ordered stimulants internally and externally, with cold applications to the head and repulsives to the extremities.

2. A repelling or counteracting force. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > that which > repelling force or influence

repulsory1611

repulsive1667

repellant1783

repellent1788

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 59 God having..placed in nature ballances and repulsives as well as insolences and pestilences of assaults on harmony.

Compounds

Complementary, as repulsive-looking, repulsive-tasting adjs.

ΚΠ

1855 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce ix. 125 A hard~featured and repulsive-looking woman.

1894 Daily News 22 Jan. 4/8 One of the fat, pink, repulsive-looking grubs, coiled up in one of the wide tunnellings that have ruined the tree.

1935 A. Francis Then & Now 165 The sting-a-ree, or more properly, stinging-ray, is a flat, repulsive-looking fish, four or five feet across, which lies upon the bottom in shallow water.

1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel v. xvi. 640 ‘These are the most repulsive-looking villains that I have seen yet,’ said Friar John.

1997 Independent on Sunday 26 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 50/1 We were offered a range of repulsive-sounding but subtle-tasting fruit beers.

Derivatives

reˈpulsively adv. in a repulsive manner; to a repulsive extent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > not affably

strangelyc1374

coldly1550

squeamishly1571

coolly1627

chilly1640

reservedly1710

repulsively1725

starchly1755

chillinglyc1784

distantly1798

uncordially1811

stiffly1823

frozenly1851

pokerishly1867

chillily1886

standoffishly1892

aloofly1963

1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors vi. 69 Repulsively to the Application; so that different Temperaments fly off and fall back to opposite Distances.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 76 She..repulsively, as I may say, quitting my assisting hand, hurried into the house.

1840 New Monthly Mag. 58 58 I was prevented by the lady, who, putting out her hand repulsively, said, ‘Oh! don't send him to me’.

1895 Times 20 Sept. 10/4 A book which certainly belongs to what Southey branded as the Satanic School cannot plead the excuse of reproducing the repulsively realistic.

1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted 80 There are times, Halliday was thinking, when a young man, any young man, seems repulsively healthy to an old man of forty.

2000 C. Barlow Ghosts of Evol. i. 25 It tastes repulsively bitter to me.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	repulsive
释义	repulsiveadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈpʌlsɪv/, U.S. /rəˈpəlsɪv/, /riˈpəlsɪv/ Forms: late Middle English repulsif, late Middle English repulsyue, 1500s–1600s repulsiue, 1600s– repulsive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French repulsif; Latin repulsivus. Etymology: < Middle French repulsif (French répulsif ) that repels or resists (c1400; 1705 in physics; 18th cent. in sense ‘disgusting, repellent’) and its etymon post-classical Latin repulsivus that repels, repellent (9th cent., 13th cent. in British sources; 1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin repuls- , past participial stem of repellere repel v. + -īvus -ive suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin repulsivum repellent medicine or application (1363 in Chauliac), ground for rejection (1426 in a British source). Compare repulse v., repulse n., repulsion n., and also repel v., repellent adj. A. adj. †1. Medicine. = repercussive adj. 1. Cf. repellent adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > repelling or drawing off percussivea1398 repercussivea1398 repulsive?a1425 back-driving1562 repellent1575 revelling1592 depulsivec1615 repercutient1676 repellant1730 derivative1854 derivant1876 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 167^v Þat is seid a medicyne of materie repercussiue or constrictif or interceptif, repulsyue [?c1425 Paris repulsif; L. repulsiua], impulsif, or restrictif..þat impelleþ or putteþ toward þe profoundenez þe humours to which he nyȝheþ nere. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xlii. 51 Then go about to cure the nosethrills, that you may dry vp the matter, with medicines that be repulsiue and discussiue. 1617 W. Est tr. B. Pirckheimer Praise of Gout 20 I instruct them to discerne what is cold and what is hot, what is drie and what is moyst, what is stipticke and what is repulsiue. 1761 J. Chandler Treat. Dis. called Cold (ed. 2) 114 The same aggravated pressure, will exert a repulsive force upon all the circulating humors on the superficies, from head to foot. 1800 A. Willich Lect. Diet & Regimen (ed. 3) 123 Neither was this preventive and repulsive method confined merely to persons who suffered under some bodily disorder. 1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 31 I prefer the mustard plaster to the cups, as I think it produces a better repulsive action. 2. Having the property of repelling or resisting a person or thing; tending to force back, drive away, etc.; repellent. Sometimes with of or to. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [adjective] > repelling repulsing1490 repulsive?1574 expulsive1618 propulsive1648 repellent1654 repelling1710 repulsory1727 repellant1780 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing rebounding1555 rolling1575 repercussive1604 doubling1605 reverberate1608 reparable echo1616 revoicing1631 reverberating1632 rewording1657 re-echoing1668 repeating1685 phonocamptic1694 echoing1702 anacamptic1706 anacamptical1706 reactive1712 rebellowing1712 redoubling1717 repulsive1744 reverberative1807 reverbering1822 reboant1830 echoy1841 reverberant1847 reboantic1853 verberant1864 ?1574 T. Hill Contempl. Myst. f. 65 The Baye tree is sildome harmed with the lightning..for so much as it hath thys repulsiue vertue of the lightning through the inner cause. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 66 For the repulsiue hand of Diomed doth not spend His raging darts there. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida v. 133 The bold Flame like a fire, forc'd from repulsive cold, Breaks through the harsh extream of hate. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 192 Repulsive of his Might the Weapon stood. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 111 To the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 56 The desolation of the spot was repulsive to his wishes. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 8 Fences are..plac'd around, (With Tenters tip'd) a strong repulsive bound. 1811 T. Moore By that Lake iv, in Sel. Irish Melodies No. 4 And with rude repulsive shock Hurls her from the beetling rock. 1855 T. J. Vaiden America Vindicated 231 Catholicism..that is ever tenacious of ecclesiastical error, repulsive of rationality. 1860 Proc. Royal Soc. 1859–60 10 535 Hedges, on the contrary, seem to have a repulsive influence on fogs. 1909 Bot. Gaz. 48 76 Acids and alkalies proved repulsive, as in the case of other sperms. 2007 M. O'Hare How to fossilize your Hamster (2008) vii. 190 Repulsive vegetables... Why do cabbage leaves repel water so well? 3. Tending to repel a person by denial, coldness of manner, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable strange1338 estrangec1374 formal?1518 cold1557 squeamish1561 icy1567 buckrama1589 repulsive1598 starched1600 unaffable1603 stiff1608 withdrawing1611 reserved1612 aloof1639 cool1641 uncordial1643 inaffable1656 staunch1659 standfra1683 distant1710 starcha1716 distancing1749 pokerish1779 buckramed1793 angular1808 easeless1811 touch-me-not1817 starchy1824 standoffish1826 offish1827 poker-backed1830 standoff1837 stiffish1840 chilly1841 unapproachable1848 hedgehoggy1866 sticky1882 hard-to-get1899 stand-away1938 princesse lointaine1957 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. C2^v Be not discouraged that my daughter.., Like a well fortified and loftie tower, Is so repulsiue and vnapt to yeelde. 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 31 Purposeth he to goe to Christ? his owne conscience giues him a repulsiue answer: no, thou hast betrayed innocent blood. c1655 in Roxburghe Ballads (1886) VI. 209 The Repulsive Maid, Who Once took a young-man, but now cannot win To open the door, and let him come in. 1792 E. Burke Let. 29 Feb. in Corr. (1968) VII. 81 Nothing can be more completely cold, distant, and even repulsive to me, than the Conduct and manner of Ministers, in this, and in every other point. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vi. 274 She suddenly raised herself, and, with a repulsive gesture, and a countenance of forced serenity, said [etc.]. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. vi. 97 Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth. View more context for this quotation 1843 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. vi. 233 I could not..receive it in silence, because this would seem cold, unfriendly and repulsive. 1863 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 43 I ne'er wi' ither bairns gallanted Wha looks repulsive on me slanted. 1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 119 There was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. 1958 Brit. Jrnl. Educ. Stud. 7 88 It might do much to dispel the notion that the present shortage of mathematicians is due solely to out-dated and repulsive presentation in the schools. 2008 I. Zorko tr. T. Kosmač in T. Priestly Angels beneath Surface 86 She was terribly attractive and at the same time repulsive because of her cold attitude. 4. Physics. Having the property of causing increased separation by a physical force; of the nature of or characterized by repulsion (repulsion n. 3a); = repellent adj. 2a. Opposed to attractive adj. 3a.The only forces of nature that can be repulsive as well as attractive are the electrical and magnetic forces (regarded in Physics as two aspects of the electromagnetic force). Other repulsive forces have been imagined, esp. in Science Fiction (cf. anti-gravity n.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [adjective] > repulsive repulsive1709 idiorepulsive1828 1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. ii. 43 They would often repeat this alternate rising and falling ; the Attractive and Repulsive forces (whatever they are) exerting themselves as it were by turns. 1718 I. Newton Opticks (ed. 2) iii. i. 363 A repulsive Force by which they fly from one another. 1771 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 198 The balls separated..; and, continuing in a repulsive state, appeared to be electrified negatively. 1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics vi. 69 The space around each atom of a body, through which this repulsive influence extends, is generally limited. 1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 46 If the mutual force had been attractive instead of repulsive..the expression for the work done would be the same as that for the repulsive force, but with reversed sign. 1932 Wonder Stories Q. Spring 311/1 The antigravity apparatus will have to be capable of generating a greater repulsive force than is required for ordinary interplanetary conditions. 2000 J. C. Wheeler Cosmic Catastrophes xi. 227 When the Universe was first born, it had a vacuum energy that did act as a repulsive force, an antigravity, that caused a piece of the Universe to expand rapidly. 5. Arousing intense distaste; disgusting, loathsome. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adjective] > disgusting or repulsive fulsomec1510 distasteful1607 stinkardly1616 reluctant1663 disgustful1678 fulsamic1694 disgusteda1716 disgustive1740 revolting1773 disgustable1787 repulsive1791 disgusting1839 foul1842 vomitorial1868 untouchable1873 icky1938 gross1959 grody1965 yechy1969 yucky1970 yuck1971 yuck-making1972 gross-out1973 skeevy1976 sleazoid1976 skanky1982 festy1995 mug2009 1791 tr. Siege of Belgrade II. 152 Though she found him repulsive to her nature, she yet could not wish him so great an evil, as that of being united to a wife who could not love him. 1796 Evangelical Mag. 4 128 We shall feel no repulsive quality turning us for a moment from any brother who loves our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. 1800 Monthly Rev. Feb. 187 Of the numerous quotations which diversify his [sc. Johnson's] pages, there are few which interest by their elegance; on the contrary, the majority of them are disgusting by their harshness, or repulsive by their obscurity. 1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 314 Presenting itself to the eye of the mind in the repulsive character of an absolutely dark spot. 1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 15 The repulsive plants that are native in the swamp. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xv. 317 There was something so repulsive about the woman. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 299 Balzac..is often repulsive, and not unfrequently dull. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xii. 184 That such nobility of character could lie beneath so repulsive an exterior never ceased to be a source of wonder and amazement to her. 1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned ii. xxii. 303 The painted face in the coffin, the rather sly hint of a smile (no doubt the mortician's handiword) had been repulsive at the time, but was doubly repulsive now. 1996 Independent 27 Aug. i. 6/6 Most repulsive are a pile of penile rings, made out of the skin and bristly hairs of an indeterminate animal. †B. n. 1. Medicine. = repercussive n. Cf. repellent n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine repelling or drawing off repercussivea1398 repulsive?c1425 repercutive?1541 repulser1611 repeller1634 repercusser1634 repellent1661 repriment1684 repellant1689 repercutient1719 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 158 He schal laye þerto anon local medecynes, and nouȝt repulsyues [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. repercussyuez; L. repulsiua] but þoo þat drawen þe matere to the apostemed place. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ix. 222 Those [medicines], which are called repellentia and regerentia repulsiues, and restrictiues. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 17 Whether repulsives may be used? 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xvi. 363 Repulsives or Repellers..are opposed to Attractives. 1703 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd (ed. 2) 639 They are cur'd by promoting Suppuration, and avoiding Repulsives. 1829 N.Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 101 He kept up and exasperated the disease by means of bark, purgatives, and the most violent repulsives. 1853 Western Lancet Sept. 530 I now ordered stimulants internally and externally, with cold applications to the head and repulsives to the extremities. 2. A repelling or counteracting force. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling > that which > repelling force or influence repulsory1611 repulsive1667 repellant1783 repellent1788 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 59 God having..placed in nature ballances and repulsives as well as insolences and pestilences of assaults on harmony. Compounds Complementary, as repulsive-looking, repulsive-tasting adjs. ΚΠ 1855 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce ix. 125 A hard~featured and repulsive-looking woman. 1894 Daily News 22 Jan. 4/8 One of the fat, pink, repulsive-looking grubs, coiled up in one of the wide tunnellings that have ruined the tree. 1935 A. Francis Then & Now 165 The sting-a-ree, or more properly, stinging-ray, is a flat, repulsive-looking fish, four or five feet across, which lies upon the bottom in shallow water. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel v. xvi. 640 ‘These are the most repulsive-looking villains that I have seen yet,’ said Friar John. 1997 Independent on Sunday 26 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 50/1 We were offered a range of repulsive-sounding but subtle-tasting fruit beers. Derivatives reˈpulsively adv. in a repulsive manner; to a repulsive extent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > not affably strangelyc1374 coldly1550 squeamishly1571 coolly1627 chilly1640 reservedly1710 repulsively1725 starchly1755 chillinglyc1784 distantly1798 uncordially1811 stiffly1823 frozenly1851 pokerishly1867 chillily1886 standoffishly1892 aloofly1963 1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors vi. 69 Repulsively to the Application; so that different Temperaments fly off and fall back to opposite Distances. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 76 She..repulsively, as I may say, quitting my assisting hand, hurried into the house. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 58 58 I was prevented by the lady, who, putting out her hand repulsively, said, ‘Oh! don't send him to me’. 1895 Times 20 Sept. 10/4 A book which certainly belongs to what Southey branded as the Satanic School cannot plead the excuse of reproducing the repulsively realistic. 1950 B. Schulberg Disenchanted 80 There are times, Halliday was thinking, when a young man, any young man, seems repulsively healthy to an old man of forty. 2000 C. Barlow Ghosts of Evol. i. 25 It tastes repulsively bitter to me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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