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repellent
[ ri-pel-uhnt ]
adjective
- causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
Synonyms: loathsome, distasteful, disgusting, repugnant
- forcing or driving back.
- serving or tending to ward off or drive away.
- impervious or resistant to something (often used in combination):
moth-repellant.
noun
- something that repels, as a substance that keeps away insects.
- a medicine that serves to prevent or reduce swellings, tumors, etc.
- any of various durable or nondurable solutions applied to a fabric, garment, surface, etc., to increase its resistance, as to water, moths, mildew, etc.
repellent
/ rɪˈpɛlənt /
adjective
- giving rise to disgust or aversion; distasteful or repulsive
- driving or forcing away or back; repelling
noun
- something, esp a chemical substance, that repels
insect repellent
- a substance with which fabrics are treated to increase their resistance to water
Derived Forms
- reˈpellently, adverb
- reˈpellence, noun
Other Words From
- re·pellent·ly adverb
- inter·re·pellent adjective
- nonre·pellent adjective
- self-re·pellent adjective
- unre·pellent adjective
- unre·pellent·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of repellent1
Example Sentences
Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”
Turning now to blame the American people for that violence is especially repellent for this reason.
This she did (we are not told how), and Beethoven reacted with ‘repellent coldness’.
But nothing seemed to change the fact that the best repellent, for everyone else, was to have me around.
The point is that sexual sleaze is more repellent when everyone can see it up close.
The images and pictures on the outside of the wall were made repellent, to keep strangers aloof.
He was an exceedingly handsome man of perhaps forty years of age, and yet there was something repellent in his features.
But Rosa had been too coy to Alfred's evident devotion—almost repellent at seasons.
It was trim and neat, indeed, and spotlessly clean; but it had the chill, repellent look of an uninhabited apartment.
They had the curious tattooing on their cheeks, noses and foreheads, so that their appearance was repellent.
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