revulsive

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: re=vul=sive

CIDE DICTIONARY

revulsive, a. [Cf. F. révulsif.].

 Causing, or tending to, revulsion.  [1913 Webster]

revulsive, n. 

 That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

revulsive, adj. & n. Med.
--adj. producing revulsion.
--n. a revulsive substance.

THESAURUS

revulsive

abhorrent, antiphonal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, insurrectionary, invidious, obnoxious, radical, reacting, reactionary, reactive, reflex, reflexive, refluent, repellent, respondent, responding, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, revolutional, revolutionary, revulsionary, sweeping, transilient

ROGET THESAURUS

revulsive

Reversion

N reversion, return, revulsion, turning point, turn of the tide, status quo ante bellum, calm before a storm, alternation, inversion, recoil, retreat, regression, retrogression, restoration, relapse, recidivism, atavism, vicinism, reverting, regressive, revulsive, reactionary, retrorse, a rebours.