repellent
or re·pel·lant
causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
forcing or driving back.
serving or tending to ward off or drive away.
impervious or resistant to something (often used in combination): moth-repellant.
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.
Origin of repellent
1Other words for repellent
Other words from repellent
- re·pel·lent·ly, adverb
- in·ter·re·pel·lent, adjective
- non·re·pel·lent, adjective
- self-re·pel·lent, adjective
- un·re·pel·lent, adjective
- un·re·pel·lent·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with repellent
- repellent , repulsive
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How to use repellent in a sentence
Koplitz seizes the opportunity, and diagnoses the crudeness of the outburst as symptoms of “pussy-repellant serial killers.”
What Women Comedians Want: Yael Kohen’s ‘We Killed’ | Allison Yarrow | October 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople who find hunting repellant will scoff at yet another Republican candidate beloved by the NRA.
Don abandons the mistress thing, which he knows is repellant, his wife tells him so.
‘Mad Men’: Matthew Weiner & Christina Hendricks on ‘The Other Woman,’ Part 1 | Jace Lacob | August 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA stuntman in a fire suit, gooey with fire repellant, naturally.
I mean, did you ever meet anybody remotely like the repellant but inspiring Dr. Stone, who is the surgeon at the mission hospital?
His voice was harsh and his manner repellant only because Nature had served him the cruel turn of making them so.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim | Frances Hodgson BurnettThis rough, repellant man actually paid court to me, served me at table as if I had been his lady.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerHe was in such great and desperate earnest that he was not quite so repellant as usual.
A Plucky Girl | L. T. MeadeEven to Kenwick's inexpert eyes the room appeared somehow dirty and repellant.
The Rest Hollow Mystery | Rebecca N. PorterElinor redoubled her loving ways from that time, and strove to cheer and gladden him, but he was almost repellant.
'Laramie;' | Charles King
British Dictionary definitions for repellent
/ (rɪˈpɛlənt) /
giving rise to disgust or aversion; distasteful or repulsive
driving or forcing away or back; repelling
something, esp a chemical substance, that repels: insect repellent
a substance with which fabrics are treated to increase their resistance to water
Derived forms of repellent
- repellence or repellency, noun
- repellently, adverb
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