repulsive force

1. 1.

   the force by which bodies repel one another

   Synonymsrepulsion

   Broaderforce

Questions about repulsive force

What does repulsive force mean?

repulsive force means "the force by which bodies repel one another".

What is another word for repulsive force?

Close synonyms include repulsion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is repulsive force a common word?

repulsive force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.