Stinking vs Repulsive - What's the difference?
stinking | repulsive | Related terms |
Having a pungent smell.
Very bad and undesirable.
(vulgar) An intensifier, a minced oath.
The emission of a foul smell.
* 2013 , Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited (page 42)
tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
(physics) having the capacity to repel
Stinking is a related term of repulsive.
As adjectives the difference between stinking and repulsive
is that stinking is having a pungent smell while repulsive is .As a verb stinking
is .As a noun stinking
is the emission of a foul smell.stinking
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Despite leading the way for years, the new model is really stinking .
- We don't need your stinking sympathy.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings , quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.