单词	repulsive
释义	repulsivere‧pul‧sive /rɪˈpʌlsɪv/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Baine's tale is both intriguing and repulsive. Delia was frightened of the operation, because afterwards she knew she would look repulsive. The patient's disease was so terrible that his own skin was repulsive to him. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Constance found him repulsive and she knew immediately that he was dangerous. Gleeson was so repulsive that surely no-one would be interested in him. He has hairy nostrils and repulsive furniture. His apostasy was repulsive to the Xerox people. She found her husband Sidney sexually repulsive. The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorperson► ugly extremely unattractive, with a face that is not at all nice to look at: · We hated our uncle. He was fat and ugly, with tiny eyes and a long, pointed nose .· An ugly little man came over and offered to buy me a drink. ► hideous extremely ugly, especially because you were born with something wrong with you: · In fairy stories the Prince is always very handsome, and the witch hideous.· a man with a hideous twisted lip ► repulsive very ugly and extremely unpleasant to look at, especially so that people do not like to look at you: · Delia was frightened of the operation, because afterwards she knew she would look repulsive.repulsive to: · The patient's disease was so terrible that his own skin was repulsive to him. ► grotesque extremely ugly in a strange or unnatural way: · The boy was twisting one side of his face in grotesque imitation of his grandfather.· Suddenly the grotesque figure of the hunchback Quasimodo loomed out of the darkness. ► unsightly an unsightly spot, mark, hair on your face etc is very unattractive: unsightly scar/fat/mark/spot/hair etc: · The accident left Simon with unsightly scars.· Electrolysis gets rid of unsightly facial hair. ► he's/she's no oil-painting British /she's no Miss America American informal use this as a humorous way of saying that someone is ugly: · "What's Anna's new boyfriend like?" "Well, he's nice, but he's no oil painting." WORD SETS► Physics aether, nounamplitude, nounantimatter, nounantiparticle, nounastrophysics, nounatom, nounatomic, adjectiveattract, verbattraction, nounballistics, nounbeam, nounblack hole, nounbuoyancy, nouncalorie, nouncalorific, adjectivecapillary action, nouncathode ray tube, nouncentre of gravity, nouncentrifugal force, nouncentrifuge, nouncentripetal force, nounchain reaction, nouncondensation, nounconduct, verbconduction, nounconductive, adjectiveconductor, nounconvect, verbconvection, nouncore, nouncritical mass, noundemagnetize, verbdense, adjectivedensity, noundisplacement, noundynamic, adjectiveelectron, nounelementary particle, nounfallout, nounfissile, adjectivefission, nounfocus, verbfrequency, nounfriction, nounfusion, noungamma ray, noungravitation, noungravitational, adjectivegravity, nounhalf-life, nounhertz, nounhydraulic, adjectiveHz, imaging, nounimpetus, nouninertia, nouninvariable, adjectiveion, nounionize, verbkinetic, adjectivelaser, nounlift, nounliquefaction, nounliquefy, verblodestone, nounmagnet, nounmagnetic, adjectivemagnetic field, nounmagnetism, nounmagnetize, verbmass, nounmechanical, adjectivemedium, nounmeltdown, nounmomentum, nounmotive, adjectivemushroom cloud, nounnatural philosophy, nounneutron, nounNewtonian, adjectivenuclear, adjectivenuclear fission, nounnuclear fusion, nounnuclear physics, nounnuclear reactor, nounnucleus, nounoptical fibre, nounparticle accelerator, nounparticle physics, nounphonic, adjectivephosphorescence, nounphosphorescent, adjectivephoto-, prefixphoton, nounphotosensitive, adjectivephotosensitize, verbphysical, adjectivephysicist, nounphysics, nounpivot, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpotential energy, nounpower, nounpressure, nounpropulsion, nounproton, nounpull, nounquantum mechanics, nounquantum theory, nounquark, nounradiate, verbradiation, nounradio wave, nounray, nounreaction, nounreactor, nounreflect, verbreflector, nounrefract, verbrelativity, nounrepel, verbrepulsion, nounrepulsive, adjectiveresilience, nounresilient, adjectiveresistance, nounresonance, nounretention, nounsolid-state, adjectivesonic, adjectivesonic boom, nounsound wave, nounspace, nounspecific gravity, nounspectral, adjectivespectroscope, nounspectrum, nounstatics, nounsteady state theory, nounstrain, nounstress, nounsurface tension, nountension, nounthermodynamics, nounthrust, nountraction, nountrajectory, nountransmit, verbultrasonic, adjectiveultrasound, nounvacuum, nounvaporize, verbvapour, nounvector, nounwave, nounwavelength, nounwork, noun 1extremely unpleasant, in a way that almost makes you feel sick SYN  revolting, disgusting:  Many people find slugs repulsive.2technical repulsive forces push objects away from each other—repulsively adverb—repulsiveness noun [uncountable]
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