- causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- capable of causing repulsion; serving to repulse: to present enough repulsive force to keep the enemy from daring to attack.
- tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding: arrogant, repulsive airs to frighten the timid.
- of the nature of or characterized by physical repulsion.
- causing or occasioning repugnance; loathsome; disgusting or distasteful
- tending to repel, esp by coldness and discourtesy
- concerned with, producing, or being a repulsion
