Repulsive vs Malicious - What's the difference?
repulsive | malicious |
tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
(physics) having the capacity to repel
Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
As adjectives the difference between repulsive and malicious
is that repulsive is while malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.repulsive
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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
* ----malicious
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.