repellent

Meanings

Plural: repellents

Noun

• a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
• a chemical substance that repels animals
• the power to repel
  • "she knew many repellents to his advances"
• A substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests.
• A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.
• Someone or something that repels.

Adjective Satellite

• serving or tending to repel
  • "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  • "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"
• incapable of absorbing or mixing with
  • "a water-repellent fabric"

Adj

• Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
• Resistant or impervious to something.
• Tending or able to repel; driving back.

Synonyms

disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, rebarbative, repellant, repelling, resistant, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

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