🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

不快な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fukai na

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Repulsive/rɪˈpʌl.sɪv/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼の無礼な態度には本当に不快感を覚えた。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Causing intense disgust; extremely unpleasant or offensive.

    "He found the smell of the chemical waste completely repulsive."
  2. 2

    Tending to drive away or keep at a distance, often used in physics regarding forces.

    "Two magnets with the same polarity exert a repulsive force on each other."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin repulsivus, formed from the past participle of repellere (to drive back, repulse). Entering English in the early 17th century, it initially retained physical senses of driving back before shifting into psychological and aesthetic domains to describe intense aversion.

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