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発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/
• enPR: /rĭ-pŭl'sĭv/, /rē-pŭl'sĭv/

形容詞

repulsive (comparative more repulsive, superlative most repulsive)

1. Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.

   a repulsive smell

   • 1975, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875, published 1995, page 267:

     The problem is to strike a balance between, on the one hand, the harsh poverty which still dominated the lives of most working folk, the repulsive physical environment and the moral void which surrounded so many of them, and, on the other, the undoubted general improvement of their conditions and prospects since the 1840s.

2. (physics) Having the capacity to repel.
3. Cold; reserved; forbidding.

同意語

• repellent
• similar: disgusting, vile, inappropriate

反意語

• (tending to rouse aversion): attractive
• (physics, having the capacity to repel): attractive

派生語

Collocations

アナグラム

• prelusive, pulverise