Steve Albini

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

American Musician

Gary L. Francione

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

American Educator

Nicolas Cage

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

Actor

Felix Mendelssohn

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

German Composer

Susanna Moodie

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

British Author

Selma Blair

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

American Actress

T. S. Eliot

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

American Poet

Chester Gould

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

American Cartoonist

David Bowie

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

English Musician

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.

Welsh Actress

Use 'repulsive' to convey a strong emotional reaction of disgust or distaste.

Emotional Weight

Indicates moral or aesthetic disapproval when describing behavior, appearance or ideas.

Negative Judgement

Use 'repulsive' to create a vivid image that elicits disgust in the reader or listener.

Descriptive Imagery

In physics, 'repulsive' is a technical term describing interactions that push entities apart.

Scientific Context

Unlike the general use, 'repulsive' in physics does not carry negative connotations.

Neutral Tone

When learning physics, know that 'repulsive' refers to a force, not an emotion.

Not Emotional

 leopards lions bits of elephant black mambas honey badgers pangolins most trafficked animal the world at the moment you could just walk in off the street and buy any in it so I just you know I had to shoot I want people see them at their best which is when they're fighting they're covered in blood and they're heartily repulsive

Vultures - Photographing...

 know how to keep the universe in that static situation and he made an amazing discovery enabled by his new theory his amazing discovery was although the gravity of the objects in the universe is attractive the gravity of the empty space between the objects could be repulsive and this kind of repulsive

Mapping the Unknown,...

 In chemistry, energetics deals with the attractive and repulsive forces between particles at the molecular level. This scale is so small that there are more water molecules in a single glass than there are known stars in the universe. And all of these trillions of molecules are

The chemistry of cold...

 The universe is getting bigger and bigger faster and faster driven by a mysterious repulsive force called dark energy. Now, whenever you hear the word "dark" in physics, you should get very suspicious because it probably means we don't know what we're talking about.

Have we reached the end...

 that’s the repulsive force expanding the universe. Copy this system over and over again, and you have something approximating the real universe. The outcome of the battle between these two opposing forces determines how the end of the universe will play out.

Three ways the universe...

 and that's a question on which we can make headway because those universes that have much more dark energy than ours whenever matter tries to clump into galaxies the repulsive push of the dark energy is so strong that it blows the clump apart

Is our universe the only...

 that are out there? And that's a question on which we can make headway. Because those universes that have much more dark energy than ours, whenever matter tries to clump into galaxies, the repulsive push of the dark energy is so strong

Why is our universe...

 Not much is known about dark matter, but even less is known about dark energy. Dark energy is a mysterious force that fills the space between objects. It makes up about 70% of mass in the universe, plus it has a repulsive property

Dark Universe 101 PIPE...

 So, if you're a parent in this room, and you have those teenager children who don't want anything to do with your love and affection -- in fact, they find it repulsive --

Christopher Ategeka: How...

 Sea cucumbers are repulsive to most predators, so the pearlfish is safe inside. It'll stay there until it's time to feed again.

Repulsive

Something that causes very strong feelings of dislike or disgust.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

In physics, referring to a force that pushes away or causes repulsion.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Emotional Weight

Negative Judgement

Descriptive Imagery

Compare with

Never forget "Repulsive"

WordUp Chrome Extension