Found 1 items, similar to repellents.
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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]