Repulsive vs Disgust - What's the difference?
repulsive | disgust |
tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
(physics) having the capacity to repel
To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
As an adjective repulsive
is tending to rouse aversion or to repulse.As a verb disgust is
to cause an intense dislike for something.As a noun disgust is
an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.repulsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "repulsive" is often applied: force, interaction, potential.Synonyms
* repellent * similar: disgusting, vileAntonyms
* (tending to rouse aversion ) attractive * (physics, having the capacity to repel ) attractiveAnagrams
* ----disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.