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revulsive

revulsive adjective: causing revulsion.

Adjective

revulsive (comparative more revulsive, superlative most revulsive)

  1. Causing revulsion.
    • It was so clearly a bad idea. It had certainly given her enough squirming, revulsive qualms, before she’d done it.2021, Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace, Tor, page 29

Noun

revulsive (plural revulsives)

  1. That which causes revulsion; a revulsive remedy or agent.

revulsive meaning in Tamil

revulsive in Tamil

பின்வலித்திழுக்கைக்குக் காரணமாகிற, பின்வலித்திழுக்கையூக்கிது

Forms of revulsive

Adjective
comparativemore revulsive
superlativemost revulsive
Noun
pluralrevulsives

Origin of revulsive

From Middle French révulsif.

Questions about revulsive

What does revulsive mean?
Revulsive means causing revulsion.
What is revulsive in Tamil?
Revulsive in Tamil is பின்வலித்திழுக்கைக்குக் காரணமாகிற, பின்வலித்திழுக்கையூக்கிது. See Revulsive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is revulsive?
Revulsive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near revulsive in the dictionary

  1. revulses
  2. revulsing
  3. revulsion
  4. revulsionary
  5. revulsions
  6. revulsive
  7. revulsives
  8. revulsor
  9. revulsors
  10. revumenib
  11. revusical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revulsive (page history and authors); revulsive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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