repellent

[re·pel·lent]

How can you tell that something is repellent? You dislike it so much, you want nothing to do with it. If something is repellent, it is highly offensive or disgusting.

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Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Noun
the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"

Noun
a chemical substance that repels animals

Noun
a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

Adjective S.
incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

Adjective S.
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"

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Adjective S.
serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"


a.
Driving back; able or tending to repel.

n.
That which repels.

n.
A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.

n.
A kind of waterproof cloth.


Repellent

Re*pel"lent (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Repellent

Re*pel"lent, n. 1. That which repels. 2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

Driving back; able or tending to repel.

That which repels.

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