different between stinking vs repulsive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??k??/
• Rhymes: -??k??

Etymology 1

From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwan? (“to stink”), equivalent to stink +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).

Adjective

stinking (comparative more stinking, superlative most stinking)

1. Having a pungent smell.
2. Very bad and undesirable.

3. (euphemistic) An intensifier, a hypallage.

Translations

Verb

stinking

1. present participle of stink

Etymology 2

From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink +? -ing.

Noun

stinking (plural stinkings)

1. The emission of a foul smell.

Middle English

Noun

stinking

1. Alternative form of stynkynge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French repulsif, from Medieval Latin repulsivus, from Latin repulsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?ls?v/
• enPR: /r?-p?l's?v/, /r?-p?l's?v/

Adjective

repulsive (comparative more repulsive, superlative most repulsive)

1. tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
2. (physics) having the capacity to repel
3. cold, reserved, forbidding

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "repulsive" is often applied: force, interaction, potential.

Synonyms

• repellent
• similar: disgusting, vile

Antonyms

• (tending to rouse aversion) attractive
• (physics, having the capacity to repel) attractive

Translations

Anagrams

• prelusive, pulverise

Italian

Adjective

repulsive

1. feminine plural of repulsivo