Found 2 items, similar to Repellent.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: repellent repellent adj 1: serving or tending to repel; “he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful”; “I find his obsequiousness repellent” [syn: rebarbative, repellant] 2: 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” [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky] 3: incapable of absorbing or mixing with; “a water-repellent fabric”; “plastic highly resistant to steam and water” [syn: resistant] repellent n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellant] 2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellant] 3: the power to repel; “she knew many repellents to his advances” [syn: repellant]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Repellent Repellent \Re*pel"lent\ (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel. [1913 Webster] Repellent \Re*pel"lent\, n. 1. That which repels. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster] 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. --Knight. [1913 Webster]