REVULSIVE Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

revulsive

adjective

Definition of revulsive

as in repulsive

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Adjective

Sport is full of bad actors expediting the death of discourse with repulsive antics.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
By their very nature, hydrogen atoms tend to be electrically repulsive to each other.

— Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026

Definition of repulsive

Adjective

There is real hope of a postseason push, with the disgusting state of the American League leaving the door open for any team that dares to play well.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
This whole situation is discriminatory, disgusting, and quite frankly, Orwellian.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of disgusting

Adjective

Grabs a ketchup bottle and garnishes his face, before squirting mustard into his hateful, piggish eyes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
Doukoure characterized Tuesday's rhetoric as hateful but said CAIR and members of the Muslim community have become accustomed to being targeted because of their advocacy.

— Gino Vicci, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of hateful

Adjective

The Taliban’s odious treatment of women should in itself be sufficient to compel foreign countries to reconsider their approach.

— Rina Amiri, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026
Using the odious term of genocide does nothing to help what’s going on in the Middle East.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2026

Definition of odious

Adjective

Wildlife officials had found that many of these poisons worked their way through the food chain, sickening and killing owls, raptors, coyotes and mountain lions.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
More importantly, the China business, long a stalwart, started a sickening double-digit decline.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of sickening

Adjective

But Alicia soon begins to suspect that her daughter is one of the children grotesquely stolen from the desaparecidos, dissidents disappeared by the country’s authoritarian junta, and that her husband might be in on the repugnant scheme.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 27 July 2026
Trump’s selling Wall Street early access to his Truth Social posts is ethically repugnant, but may be legal, columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Definition of repugnant

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