repulsive
adjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- //ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv//
Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
adjectif
- 1
Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
a repulsive smell
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
Having the capacity to repel.
- 3
Cold; reserved; forbidding.
Étymologie
Borrowed from Middle French repulsif, from Medieval Latin repulsivus, from Latin repulsus. By surface analysis, repuls(e) + -ive. Compare typologically Polish odpychający (< pchnąć), Russian отта́лкивающий (ottálkivajuščij) (< толкну́ть (tolknútʹ)).
Formes
- comparatif
- more repulsive
- superlatif
- most repulsive
repulsive · Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
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