[ri-puhl-siv] 
| 1. | causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask. |
| 2. | capable of causing repulsion; serving to repulse: to present enough repulsive force to keep the enemy from daring to attack. |
| 3. | tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding: arrogant, repulsive airs to frighten the timid. |
| 4. | Physics. of the nature of or characterized by physical repulsion. |
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