Definitions for repugnant

repugnant re·pug·nant

Spelling: [ri-puhg-nuh nt]
IPA: /rɪˈpʌg nənt/

Repugnant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 400 anagrams from letters in repugnant (aegnnprtu).

Definitions for repugnant

adjective

  1. distasteful, objectionable, or offensive:
  2. making opposition; averse.
  3. opposed or contrary, as in nature or character.

Origin of repugnant

1350-1400; Middle English repugnaunt Middle French Latin repugnant- (stem of repugnāns, present participle of repugnāre), equivalent to repugn(āre) to repugn + -ant

Examples for repugnant

Governor Andrew Cuomo is even attacking it—this is sweet—as a plan that would create “repugnant inequality” across the state.

Moreover, taking the life of a sentient being is repugnant, a sin that prevents many devout Buddhists from slaughtering animals.

To me, however, constituted as I am, the idea was most repugnant.

Somehow or other, the idea of her marrying anyone was repugnant to me.

Though the man was repugnant to her, she saluted him cheerfully.

It is disappointing and, frankly, frightening that Thompson walked away from his repugnant Sea World excursion scot-free.

If the actual facts are so repugnant to you, then why embellish them?

The very thought of going to him for aid, after all that had passed, was repugnant to Ruth.

She had come to believe almost his theory of the future, since it was not repugnant to her prejudices.

This struck many observers (yours truly included) as not only absurd but repugnant.

Word Value for repugnant
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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