Usually means: Causing a strong dislike or disgust.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word repulsive:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. repulsive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. repulsive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repulsive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. repulsive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. repulsive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Repulsive, repulsive: Wordnik
  7. repulsive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. repulsive: Wiktionary
  9. repulsive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. repulsive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. repulsive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Repulsive, repulsive: Dictionary.com
  13. repulsive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Repulsive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Repulsive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. repulsive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. repulsive: Rhymezone
  18. repulsive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. repulsive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. repulsive: Free Dictionary
  21. repulsive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. repulsive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulsive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repulsive: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Repulsive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See repulsively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
adjective:  (physics) Having the capacity to repel.
adjective:  Cold; reserved; forbidding.

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