Offensive to the mind:
— Repulsive behavior.
— The most repulsive character in recent novels.

synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant.

Roget 395: unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet^†; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.    offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening etc. v.; nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant etc. 830.    ... show more

Roget 895: discourteous, uncourteous^†; uncourtly^†; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite^†; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar etc. 851; dedecorous^†; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.    uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.    repulsive; uncomplaisant^†, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable^†; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.    taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling etc. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen etc. 901.1; peevish etc. (irascible) 901.    untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless etc. 703; ... show more

Roget 898: hating etc. v.; abhorrent; averse from etc. (disliking) 867; set against.    bitter etc. (acrimonious) 895; implacable etc. (revengeful) 919.    unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned^†, uncared for, unendeared^†, un-valued; disliked etc. 867.    crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.    obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting etc. (disagreeable) 830; reprehensible.    invidious, spiteful; malicious etc. 907.    insulting, irritating, provoking.    [Mutual hate] at daggers drawn; not on speaking terms etc. (enmity) 889; at loggerheads.    ... show more

Roget 867: disliking etc. v.; averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick^†; queasy.    disliked etc. v.; uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful^†; offensive; disgusting etc. v.; disagreeable c.    (painful) 830.    ... show more

Roget 719: resisting etc. v.; resistive, resistant; refractory etc. (disobedient) 742; recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.    repulsive, repellant.    proof against; unconquerable etc. (strong) 159; stubborn, unconquered; indomitable etc. (persevering) 604.1; unyielding etc. (obstinate) 606.    ... show more

Roget 289: repelling etc. v.; repellent, repulsive; abducent^†, abductive^†.    centripetal

Roget 830: causing pain, hurting etc. v.; hurtful etc. (bad) 649; painful; dolorific^†, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.    unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.    distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.    irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy^†; awkward.    importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking.    intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.    shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.    odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.    nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful^†; fulsome; vile etc. (bad) 649; hideous etc. 846.    sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic^†, pyrotic [Med.].    ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.    ... show more

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental^†, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless^†; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^†, unbeautiful; beautiless^†, semibeautiful; shapeless etc. (amorphous) 241.    misshapen, misproportioned^†; monstrous; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; dumpy etc. (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked etc. (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.    graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish^†; lumbering; hulky^†, hulking; unwieldy.    squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome^†, gruesome.    frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody [Coll.], grody to the max [Coll.]; horrid, horrible; shocking etc. (painful) 830.    foul etc. (dirty) 653; dingy etc. (colorless) 429; gaudy etc. (color) 428; disfigured etc. v.; discolored.    ... show more

Possessing the ability to repel.

So extremely ugly as to be terrifying:
— A repulsive mask.

synonym: hideous.

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