What is another word for repugnant?
Pronunciation:
[ ɹɪpˈʌɡnənt], [ ɹɪpˈʌɡnənt], [ ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈʌ_ɡ_n_ə_n_t]
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Similar words for repugnant:
- abominable (adjective)
- adverse (adjective)
- bad, obnoxious; hostile (adjective)
- contradictory (adjective)
- detestable (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disgusting (adjective)
- distasteful (adjective)
- evil (adjective)
- fetid (adjective)
- foreign (adjective)
- hateful (adjective)
- hideous (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- indefinable (adjective)
- inexpressible (adjective)
- inimical (adjective)
- invidious (adjective)
- nasty (adjective)
- nauseous (adjective)
- negative (adjective)
- obnoxious (adjective)
- obscene (adjective)
- opposite (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- repellent (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
- unacceptable (adjective)
- unattractive (adjective)
- uncompassionate (adjective)
- undescribable (adjective)
- undesirable (adjective)
- unpitying (adjective)
- unspeakable (adjective)
- unstirred (adjective)
- unsympathetic (adjective)
- unutterable (adjective)
- vile (adjective)
- yucky (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- ugliness (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Repugnant:
adj.
• abominable (adjective) • adverse (adjective) • bad, obnoxious; hostile (adjective) • contradictory (adjective)- in compatible,
- coner,
- counter active,
- in-consistent,
- most against,
- anti thetic,
- more against,
- more negating,
- most nullifying,
- more paradoxical,
- anti thetical,
- in consistent,
- re-verse,
- more agin,
- in-congruous,
- more reverse,
- anti-thetic,
- most agin,
- more nullifying,
- more antithetic,
- in-compatible,
- most antithetic,
- anti-thetical,
- conest,
- more anti,
- most anti,
- most negating,
- counter-active,
- re verse,
- in congruous,
- co nest,
- co-nest,
- most paradoxical,
- most reverse.
- dis-gusting,
- yecchiest,
- more cloying,
- dis gusting,
- shameless,
- most satiating,
- nerdier,
- most sleazeball,
- yecchier,
- scuzzier,
- scuzziest,
- more satiating,
- more surfeiting,
- most surfeiting,
- nerdiest,
- more sleazeball.
- dis tasteful,
- un-likable,
- in-sipid,
- painful,
- yickiest,
- most dislikable,
- more savorless,
- un-appetizing,
- dis-likable,
- dis likable,
- yickier,
- most savorless,
- in sipid,
- un likable,
- galling,
- most unlikable,
- un appetizing,
- more unlikable,
- dis-tasteful,
- more dislikable.
- maleficent,
- sinister,
- nefarious,
- damnable,
- baneful,
- wicked,
- detrimental,
- destructive,
- no good,
- sinful,
- calamitous,
- reprehensible,
- atrocious.
- in-apposite,
- more irrelative,
- most inconsonant,
- un characteristic,
- un related,
- un assimilable,
- in consonant,
- un-assimilable,
- more uncharacteristic,
- more inconsonant,
- most inapposite,
- un-related,
- Irrelative,
- in apposite,
- in-consonant,
- most uncharacteristic,
- more inapposite,
- un-characteristic,
- most irrelative,
- most unassimilable,
- more unassimilable.
- un cool,
- most shuddersome,
- more shuddersome,
- de-spiteful,
- shuddersome,
- most uncool,
- more cussed,
- in famous,
- un-cool,
- most cussed,
- de spiteful,
- more uncool,
- uncool.
- most beast,
- more beast,
- un-sightly,
- un sightly,
- un-sightlier,
- un-comely,
- un-sightliest,
- un sightlier,
- un comely,
- un sightliest.
- most polluted,
- un-cleanliest,
- un-holier,
- un-godliest,
- un-godly,
- un godlier,
- un-cleaner,
- un godly,
- un-holiest,
- bummest,
- un holy,
- more polluted,
- un-cleanest,
- uncleanly,
- un-godlier,
- un holier,
- un cleanlier,
- un holiest,
- un cleanly,
- un cleaner,
- un-holy,
- un cleanest,
- un-cleanlier,
- un cleanliest,
- soiled,
- un clean,
- un godliest,
- un-cleanly.
- unalike,
- independent,
- flipside,
- unsimilar,
- diametrically opposed,
- most opposite,
- Fronting,
- flip-side,
- violative.
- revolting,
- disgusting,
- savorless,
- grody,
- abominable,
- inimical,
- uncharacteristic,
- ugly,
- detestable,
- negative,
- sickening,
- nauseating,
- unpleasing,
- aversive,
- contradictory,
- unacceptable,
- nauseous,
- antithetic,
- evil,
- uncompassionate,
- to be avoided,
- unlikable,
- obnoxious,
- unpitying,
- scuzzy,
- foreign,
- yicky,
- gruesome,
- disagreeable,
- sleazeball,
- no go,
- coldblooded,
- vile,
- defying description,
- paradoxical,
- seasick,
- odious,
- obscene,
- hideous,
- adverse,
- opposite,
- Inconsonant,
- unsavory,
- AGIN,
- inapposite,
- fetid,
- distasteful,
- nasty,
- anti,
- unassimilable,
- undesirable,
- dislikable,
- big mouth,
- Heeler,
- hateful,
- Piller,
- unsympathetic,
- yecchy,
- unwished for,
- unstirred,
- out of place,
- nerdy.
- bad-looking,
- mis-shapen,
- disfigured,
- displeasing,
- unbeautiful,
- plain,
- shapeless,
- unsightly,
- unaesthetic,
- not much to look at,
- unlovely,
- Ill-looking,
- unattractive,
- unappealing,
- Hard-featured,
- unprepossessing,
- inelegant,
- homely.
- more unalluring,
- Unalluring,
- un alluring,
- most unalluring,
- un-alluring,
- un-attractive,
- un attractive.
- un charitable,
- un-charitable,
- un-touched,
- un compassionate,
- un touched,
- un-compassionate,
- un-caring,
- un caring.
- most loathed,
- more dreaded,
- most dreaded,
- in-convenient,
- in commodious,
- most outcast,
- more outcast,
- be avoided,
- dis liked,
- out place,
- more unpleasing,
- un pleasing,
- most disliked,
- more shunned,
- out-cast,
- most unpleasing,
- in-commodious,
- un-pleasing,
- un sought,
- un desirable,
- in convenient,
- out cast,
- un popular,
- dis-liked,
- un-popular,
- most scorned,
- more loathed,
- un-sought,
- more scorned,
- un-desirable,
- more disliked,
- most shunned.
- half hearted,
- un sympathetic,
- un feeling,
- un kinder,
- dis-interested,
- un kindest,
- most aversive,
- un kind,
- un emotional,
- in-different,
- Half-hearted,
- un-kind,
- un-responsive,
- cold blooded,
- un-kinder,
- un-moved,
- un congenial,
- un-kindest,
- in different,
- dis interested,
- un-emotional,
- un-sympathetic,
- in sensitive,
- un-congenial,
- un responsive,
- in-sensitive,
- more aversive,
- un-concerned,
- un concerned.
n.
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- agree.
- counter,
- below contempt,
- disowning,
- repelling,
- at variance,
- unharmonious,
- ungodly,
- base,
- stinking,
- colliding,
- squared off,
- fun,
- disable,
- awfully,
- dire,
- Compensating,
- deplorable,
- invidious,
- belief,
- opposed,
- wretched,
- out of accord,
- venomous,
- crotchety,
- incongruous,
- fine,
- macabre,
- cranky,
- confronting,
- Contrasted,
- abhorrent,
- jangling,
- unspeakable,
- messy,
- cross,
- gross,
- crying,
- unholy,
- horrendous,
- counteractant,
- dreadful,
- diabolical,
- suffocating,
- repellent,
- inharmonious,
- discrepant,
- horrid,
- grisly,
- antonymous,
- divergent,
- reactionary,
- oppositive,
- rival,
- Contradicting,
- fractious,
- incompatible,
- dissentient,
- murderous,
- obstinate,
- unfavorable,
- abysmal,
- oppositional,
- black,
- grim,
- disaffirming,
- grating,
- counteractive,
- sobering,
- fulsome,
- Overthwart,
- beastly,
- insidious,
- insuperable,
- Revulsive,
- unpropitious,
- toxic,
- fraught,
- rough,
- objectionable,
- Abnegative,
- Denying,
- rancorous,
- malignant,
- repudiative,
- awful,
- malicious,
- deleterious,
- lamentable,
- miasmic,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- rude,
- dead against,
- unbearable,
- refractory,
- nonconformist,
- unutterable,
- sobriety,
- yucky,
- antagonistic,
- rotten,
- invasion,
- shockingly,
- belligerent,
- grotesque,
- offensive,
- solemn,
- horribly,
- classic,
- inconsistent,
- Fiendish,
- Snivelling,
- competitive,
- noisome,
- bear,
- off-putting,
- heavy,
- perverse,
- unimaginable,
- revolutionary,
- nightmare,
- vitriolic,
- shocking,
- Hell,
- adversary,
- despiteful,
- appalling,
- unedifying,
- at war,
- Disavowing,
- piercing,
- set against,
- dreadfully,
- drastic,
- uncooperative,
- contrarious,
- shitty,
- converse,
- execrable,
- sore,
- Disallowing,
- at cross-purposes,
- variant,
- raging,
- adversative,
- noncooperative,
- degree,
- foul,
- enemy,
- corrosive,
- deathly,
- immiscible,
- woeful,
- dismal,
- Disaccordant,
- acrid,
- adversive,
- exemplary,
- opponent,
- out of whack,
- countervailing,
- depth,
- malodorous,
- horror,
- hate,
- painfully,
- Negatory,
- inverse,
- intolerable,
- rebarbative,
- terrible,
- extraneous,
- opposing,
- thankless,
- fearful,
- badly,
- virulent,
- contemptible,
- balloon,
- Renunciatory,
- Disclaiming,
- resistant,
- hellish,
- ignoble,
- crude,
- ungenial,
- revocative,
- putrid,
- stink,
- sick,
- forbidding,
- Renitent,
- Inaccordant,
- Counteracting,
- clashing,
- repulsive,
- despicable,
- apocalyptic,
- crushing,
- Recanting,
- nauseatingly,
- kafkaesque,
- heinous,
- dissident,
- malevolent,
- distaste,
- recalcitrant,
- obverse,
- disproportionate,
- contrapositive,
- differing,
- infernal,
- renunciative,
- at odds,
- breakaway,
- counterpoised,
- beneath contempt,
- Contradistinct,
- frightful,
- unendurable,
- dissonant,
- horrible,
- jarring,
- woefully,
- con,
- Abjuratory,
- pitiless,
- disgraceful,
- monstrous,
- ghastly,
- Oppugnant,
- full of hate,
- loathsome,
- disagreeing,
- counterworking,
- hostile,
- quarrelsome,
- horrific,
- conflicting,
- reverse,
- contrary,
- miasmal,
- alien,
- stupefy,
- extrinsic,
- offending,
- unpalatable,
- unfriendly,
- bitter,
- balancing,
- uncongenial,
- Revocatory,
- terribly,
- caustic,
- bad,
- directly,
- unpleasant,
- noxious,
- disharmonious,
- antipathetic,
- dread,
- spiteful,
- typical,
- discordant,
- mephitic,
- counterbalancing,
- unenviable,
- wretchedly,
- excruciating,
- at loggerheads.
Other synonyms:
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- Despisable.
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- lousy,
- incongruent.
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- filthy.
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- low.
- detested,
- Unconsonant,
- dislike,
- debased,
- Abhorred,
- inexpressible,
- slimy,
- inappropriate,
- stomach-turning,
- mucky,
- vinegarish,
- disliked,
- inconsistency,
- debauched,
- repellant,
- terrifying,
- degenerate,
- commonplace,
- loath,
- rank,
- Loathful,
- indecent,
- spurn,
- miserable,
- dirty,
- pernicious,
- disavow,
- pestilential,
- nightmarish,
- immoral,
- harsh,
- perverted,
- embarrassing,
- improper,
- scurvy,
- unwanted,
- uneatable,
- carrion,
- remiss,
- gory,
- nausea,
- irreconcilable,
- fastidious,
- indisposed,
- reluctant,
- disgustful,
- Uninduced,
- Putrefying,
- criticize,
- indefinable,
- dreary,
- horrifying,
- Fescennine,
- disproportion,
- explicit,
- refuse,
- indelicate,
- squeamish,
- unpersuadable,
- repugnance,
- disaccord,
- antagonist,
- insulting,
- turned,
- pornographic,
- sour,
- unbecoming,
- reject,
- scatological,
- foul-mouthed,
- unloved,
- unsavoury,
- contradict,
- icky,
- defy,
- unfavourable,
- objection,
- involuntary,
- insipid,
- indecorous,
- dissenter,
- aversion,
- veto,
- dissonance,
- antipathetical,
- discrepancy,
- tedious,
- dissolute,
- smutty,
- unrestrained,
- flat,
- lurid,
- lewd,
- profligate,
- Demurring,
- mismatched,
- Irksome,
- brackish,
- naughty,
- mawkish,
- incongruity,
- disapprove,
- variance,
- bizarre,
- dissension,
- unlovable,
- discordantly,
- profane,
- mean,
- shy of,
- unclean,
- out of favor,
- division,
- Restiff,
- loathing,
- insufferable,
- corrupt,
- discordance,
- stale,
- uncanny,
- renounce,
- exceptional,
- emetic,
- unharmoniously,
- Incommunicable,
- terrific,
- induce,
- fearsome,
- disagreement,
- decline,
- dull,
- hatred,
- abomination,
- against the grain,
- loth,
- laggard,
- antithetical,
- frightening,
- repudiate,
- undescribable,
- unappetizing,
- admonitory,
- outrageous,
- harshly,
- slack,
- disinclined,
- putrescent,
- feculent,
- scatologic,
- sec,
- inedible,
- discord,
- unfit,
- indifferent,
- boring,
- dissipated,
- dissonantly,
- grotty,
- challenge,
- off,
- disparity,
- depraved,
- unconsenting,
- repulse,
- variation,
- scrupulous,
- unwilling,
- unsuitable,
- unwelcome,
- deprecate,
- difference,
- baleful,
- ubiquitous,
- rancid,
- Dissuaded,
- restive,
- unseemly,
- backward,
- abhor,
- Incongruence,
- unpopular,
- intrusive,
- sordid,
- thersitical,
- foetid,
- contradiction,
- disharmony,
- loathly,
- unlikeable,
- disgust,
- deny,
- condemn,
- salacious.
How to use "Repugnant" in context?
The word "repugnant" is derived from the Latin "repugnans" meaning "[acting] against one's natural inclination." It is used to describe something that is unpleasant, distasteful, or disgusting, and is often used in a moral sense to refer to things that are morally wrong. The word can also be used to refer to something that is considered socially unacceptable, or to something that is physically offensive. There are several different senses in which the word can be used, and it can have a variety of different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.
Paraphrases for Repugnant:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
disgusting, repulsive.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
abject, absurd, atrocious, contrary, dastardly, deplorable, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, filthy, horrible, ignoble, inconsistent, obscene, terrible, vicious, vile.
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Noun, singular or mass
filthy.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
aberrant, abominable, appalling, awful, despicable, distasteful, evil, foul, hateful, heinous, horrendous, horrific, incompatible, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off-putting, opposite, outrageous, repellent, reprehensible, revolting, shocking, sickening, ugly, unacceptable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury.
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Adjective
Homophones for Repugnant:
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- repudiatory
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