How Many Syllables in Repulsive?

The word Repulsive has 3 syllables: re-pul-sive.
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Definition of Repulsive

causing intense disgust or aversion

How should Repulsive divide into syllables

There are three syllables in the word repulsive. The first syllable (re) has one vowel (e) and one consonant (r). The second syllable (pul) has one vowel (u) and two consonants (p and l). The third syllable (sive) has two vowels (i and e) and one consonant (s).

Part of Speech - Repulsive

The smell was so repulsive that I had to leave the room.

Sentences with Repulsive

• The smell of rotten eggs was repulsive.
• The sight of the spider crawling across the floor was repulsive to her.
• The thought of eating that food was repulsive to him.
• The taste of the medicine was repulsive.
• The sound of nails on a chalkboard is repulsive to many people.
• The feeling of wet socks is repulsive to me.
• The idea of eating bugs is repulsive to most people.
• The sight of the trash overflowing was repulsive.
• The smell of the garbage was repulsive.
• The thought of being near that person again was repulsive to her.

Quotes with Repulsive

• Hatred is like fire - it burns the one who carries it. Its smoke repels others. While it is possible to hide the smoke, it is impossible to hide the fire. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• Hope is the only force capable of making the repulsive and the ugly beautiful in our eyes. - Kahlil Gibran
• The repulsive nature of the world today is the outcome of the repulsive nature of human beings. - Sathya Sai Baba
• Hate is a repulsive thing. It's ugly, it's a parasite that eats away at the soul. - Laura Spinella
• Hate is a repulsive thing; love is more subtle but more powerful. - Laura Spinella
• There is nothing more repulsive than a recaptured sense of innocence. - Vladimir Nabokov
• Only the repulsive need discipline; the charming and accomplished do not. - Oscar Wilde
• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. It is not for the mediocre, or the faint-hearted, or the man who wants to get something quickly. It is for those who are patient, like the earth, mysterious, like the night, and who have attained to mastery of themselves, like the stars. But it is also for the great lover, the great thief, the great liar, and those who have been crushed beneath the repulsive burden of their own conscience. - Federico Garcia Lorca
• The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. - Sonya Levien
• The repulsive spectacle of the ancient republics of Italy has taught us that a popular faction can only be kept in order by a chain of tyrannies, a succession of small usurpations, where each man, jealous of his neighbour's power, is disciplined by the sight of his oppressor's rule. - Walter Bagehot

Number of characters in Repulsive

9 ( r, e, p, u, l, s, i, v, e )

Unique letters in Repulsive

8 ( r, e, p, u, l, s, i, v )

Repulsive Backwards

evisluper

How to Pronounce Repulsive

IPA (International): ri:ˈpʌlsɪv

ARA (American): riˈpʌlsɪv

EPA (English): ri:ˈpʌlsɪv

RIY-PAH-LSIH-V