Definition of repugnant in English:

repugnant

adjective rɪˈpʌɡnəntrəˈpəɡnənt

1Extremely distasteful; unacceptable.
cannibalism seems repugnant to us
Example sentencesExamples
- The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant (in a grueling scene he confesses his problem to his own young son) and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code.
- Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being.
- About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
- Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels.
- But what's meaningful to one may be repugnant to another.
- In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women (today it would be more) failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant.
- Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance.
- The room was covered, the reviewer wrote, ‘with a pale green paper, cold and repugnant to the last degree.’
- I mean it put forth and quietly supported an ideology that I personally find repugnant, but how does that make it ‘morally irresponsible’.
- His face was not repugnant, but rather pleasant.
- It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience.
- The very idea of cinéma-vérité is repugnant to me.
- The thought of having to take the life of another person was repugnant to her, but she acknowledged that if they hadn't acted, they would have been the ones dragged off the side of the road and left for scavengers.
- Mainly because some of what those who don't like the paintings find repugnant is repugnant to me too.
- The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society.
- Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men.
- Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals.
- All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people.
- Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes.
- But as crazy and repugnant as Bukowski's antics could be, Dullaghan devotes more energy to celebrating his work, successfully making the case for him as a major American writer.
Synonyms
abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpalatable, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, displeasing
informal ghastly, horrible, horrid, gross, putrid, sick-making, yucky, God-awful
British informal beastly
Northern Irish informal bogging
North American informal skanky
literary noisome
archaic disgustful, scurvy, loathly
rare rebarbative
2repugnant toIn conflict or incompatible with.
a by-law must not be repugnant to the general law of the country
Example sentencesExamples
- What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them.
- The radio host has been suspended for two weeks following what he himself calls ‘repugnant, repulsive and horrible’ remarks.
Synonyms
incompatible with, in conflict with, contrary to, at variance with, contradictory to, inconsistent with, alien to, opposed to
rare oppugnant to
1. 2.1archaic Given to stubborn resistance.

Derivatives

repugnantly

adverb

A community sullies itself by keeping alive certain people who have acted in such a repugnantly depraved and murderous fashion as to degrade the human species through their membership in it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Like the 30-year-old original, it's truly horrific - a portrait that's relentlessly dark, repugnantly graphic, and hopelessly evil.
- But he is wrong, repugnantly wrong, about how to strengthen that community, and wrong also to suggest that those who disagree with him about the means of doing so are betraying the country.
- Lowell seemed alarmingly and repugnantly, overweeningly, to believe that he was a great poet; so he thought he could pretty well do what he liked.
- If you find this sort of thing revolting and repugnantly narcissistic, you are small-minded and stupid.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'offering resistance'): from Old French repugnant or Latin repugnant- 'opposing', from the verb repugnare (see repugnance).

Rhymes

oppugnant

Definition of repugnant in US English:

repugnant

adjectiverəˈpəɡnəntrəˈpəɡnənt

1Extremely distasteful; unacceptable.
the thought of going back into the fog was repugnant to him
Example sentencesExamples
- Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels.
- In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women (today it would be more) failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant.
- Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals.
- The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society.
- But as crazy and repugnant as Bukowski's antics could be, Dullaghan devotes more energy to celebrating his work, successfully making the case for him as a major American writer.
- Mainly because some of what those who don't like the paintings find repugnant is repugnant to me too.
- All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people.
- It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience.
- Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance.
- Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men.
- Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes.
- The room was covered, the reviewer wrote, ‘with a pale green paper, cold and repugnant to the last degree.’
- The thought of having to take the life of another person was repugnant to her, but she acknowledged that if they hadn't acted, they would have been the ones dragged off the side of the road and left for scavengers.
- About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant.
- The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant (in a grueling scene he confesses his problem to his own young son) and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code.
- His face was not repugnant, but rather pleasant.
- The very idea of cinéma-vérité is repugnant to me.
- I mean it put forth and quietly supported an ideology that I personally find repugnant, but how does that make it ‘morally irresponsible’.
- Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being.
- But what's meaningful to one may be repugnant to another.
Synonyms
abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpalatable, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, displeasing
2repugnant topredicative In conflict with; incompatible with.
a bylaw must not be repugnant to the general law of the country
Example sentencesExamples
- The radio host has been suspended for two weeks following what he himself calls ‘repugnant, repulsive and horrible’ remarks.
- What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them.
Synonyms
incompatible with, in conflict with, contrary to, at variance with, contradictory to, inconsistent with, alien to, opposed to
1. 2.1archaic Given to stubborn resistance.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘offering resistance’): from Old French repugnant or Latin repugnant- ‘opposing’, from the verb repugnare (see repugnance).

单词	repugnant
释义	Definition of repugnant in English: repugnant adjective rɪˈpʌɡnəntrəˈpəɡnənt 1Extremely distasteful; unacceptable. cannibalism seems repugnant to us Example sentencesExamples The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant (in a grueling scene he confesses his problem to his own young son) and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code. Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being. About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant. Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels. But what's meaningful to one may be repugnant to another. In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women (today it would be more) failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant. Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance. The room was covered, the reviewer wrote, ‘with a pale green paper, cold and repugnant to the last degree.’ I mean it put forth and quietly supported an ideology that I personally find repugnant, but how does that make it ‘morally irresponsible’. His face was not repugnant, but rather pleasant. It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience. The very idea of cinéma-vérité is repugnant to me. The thought of having to take the life of another person was repugnant to her, but she acknowledged that if they hadn't acted, they would have been the ones dragged off the side of the road and left for scavengers. Mainly because some of what those who don't like the paintings find repugnant is repugnant to me too. The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society. Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men. Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals. All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people. Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes. But as crazy and repugnant as Bukowski's antics could be, Dullaghan devotes more energy to celebrating his work, successfully making the case for him as a major American writer. Synonyms abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpalatable, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, displeasing informal ghastly, horrible, horrid, gross, putrid, sick-making, yucky, God-awful British informal beastly Northern Irish informal bogging North American informal skanky literary noisome archaic disgustful, scurvy, loathly rare rebarbative 2repugnant toIn conflict or incompatible with. a by-law must not be repugnant to the general law of the country Example sentencesExamples What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them. The radio host has been suspended for two weeks following what he himself calls ‘repugnant, repulsive and horrible’ remarks. Synonyms incompatible with, in conflict with, contrary to, at variance with, contradictory to, inconsistent with, alien to, opposed to rare oppugnant to 2.1archaic Given to stubborn resistance. Derivatives repugnantly adverb A community sullies itself by keeping alive certain people who have acted in such a repugnantly depraved and murderous fashion as to degrade the human species through their membership in it. Example sentencesExamples Like the 30-year-old original, it's truly horrific - a portrait that's relentlessly dark, repugnantly graphic, and hopelessly evil. But he is wrong, repugnantly wrong, about how to strengthen that community, and wrong also to suggest that those who disagree with him about the means of doing so are betraying the country. Lowell seemed alarmingly and repugnantly, overweeningly, to believe that he was a great poet; so he thought he could pretty well do what he liked. If you find this sort of thing revolting and repugnantly narcissistic, you are small-minded and stupid. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'offering resistance'): from Old French repugnant or Latin repugnant- 'opposing', from the verb repugnare (see repugnance). Rhymes oppugnant Definition of repugnant in US English: repugnant adjectiverəˈpəɡnəntrəˈpəɡnənt 1Extremely distasteful; unacceptable. the thought of going back into the fog was repugnant to him Example sentencesExamples Nothing vile or repugnant happens here, but we do get the feeling that we are witnessing someone's last moments on film as this mangled mess of a movie unravels. In his view, that meant accepting the inevitability of some 6 million men and women (today it would be more) failing to find work, a situation that he found morally repugnant. Using terrorism as an excuse to pull information that should be public is detrimental to a democratic society and repugnant to online professionals. The whole idea of anyone acting as judge, jury and executioner is totally repugnant to a civilized society. But as crazy and repugnant as Bukowski's antics could be, Dullaghan devotes more energy to celebrating his work, successfully making the case for him as a major American writer. Mainly because some of what those who don't like the paintings find repugnant is repugnant to me too. All the countries of the world will hopefully come together to find a way to fight this sort of terrorism, which is repugnant to all reasonable people. It argues over the ethics of non-involvement, and scoffs at those who would rationalize the repugnant for the sake of a settled conscience. Initially, Anna is shocked again by Gregor's repugnant appearance. Also repugnant to Moses was the Egyptian ideology that chose to enslave live men in order to build temples and pyramids to honor dead men. Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes. The room was covered, the reviewer wrote, ‘with a pale green paper, cold and repugnant to the last degree.’ The thought of having to take the life of another person was repugnant to her, but she acknowledged that if they hadn't acted, they would have been the ones dragged off the side of the road and left for scavengers. About that kind of purism, there is also something slightly repugnant. The film treats him as a complicated character, both repugnant (in a grueling scene he confesses his problem to his own young son) and pathetic, but not particularly gay, even in code. His face was not repugnant, but rather pleasant. The very idea of cinéma-vérité is repugnant to me. I mean it put forth and quietly supported an ideology that I personally find repugnant, but how does that make it ‘morally irresponsible’. Although Joan does things that some might consider repugnant, Linney fashions her alter-ego into a sympathetic human being. But what's meaningful to one may be repugnant to another. Synonyms abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, obscene, base, hideous, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpalatable, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, displeasing 2repugnant topredicative In conflict with; incompatible with. a bylaw must not be repugnant to the general law of the country Example sentencesExamples The radio host has been suspended for two weeks following what he himself calls ‘repugnant, repulsive and horrible’ remarks. What's repugnant to justice is the attitude that some people should be denied it, no matter what is done to them. Synonyms incompatible with, in conflict with, contrary to, at variance with, contradictory to, inconsistent with, alien to, opposed to 2.1archaic Given to stubborn resistance. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘offering resistance’): from Old French repugnant or Latin repugnant- ‘opposing’, from the verb repugnare (see repugnance).
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