REPUGNANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repugnant mean? 

• REPUGNANT (adjective)
  The adjective REPUGNANT has 1 sense:

1. offensive to the mind

  Familiarity information: REPUGNANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUGNANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Offensive to the mind

Synonyms:

abhorrent; detestable; obscene; repugnant; repulsive

Context example:

the most repulsive character in recent novels

Similar:

offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)

Derivation:

repugnance (intense aversion)

 Context examples 

I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Had it been a well wolf, it would not have mattered so much to the man; but the thought of going to feed the maw of that loathsome and all but dead thing was repugnant to him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)