repellent
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(s) serving or tending to repel
- he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful
- I find his obsequiousness repellent
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(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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(s) incapable of absorbing or mixing with
- a water-repellent fabric
- plastic highly resistant to steam and water
Nouns
- (n) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water repellant,
- (n) a chemical substance that repels animals repellant,
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(n) the power to repel
- she knew many repellents to his advances