Repellent \Re*pel"lent\ (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p.
pr. ]
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Repellent \Re*pel"lent\, n.
1. That which repels.
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2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids
which render it tumid. --Dunglison.
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3. A kind of waterproof cloth. --Knight.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "repellent":
abhorrent, abominable, base, beastly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, complaining, contemptible, crude, despicable,
detestable, diamagnetic, disagreeable, disgusting, disputatious,
disputing, dissentient, dissenting, distasteful, execrable, fetid,
forbidding, foul, fractious, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous,
ignoble, invidious, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal,
miasmic, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noncooperative,
noxious, objecting, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obstructive,
odious, of opposite polarity, offensive, on the barricades,
proof against, protesting, rebarbative, rebellious, recalcitrant,
refractory, reluctant, renitent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive,
resistant, resisting, resistive, retardant, retardative, revolting,
revulsive, sickening, stinking, uncongenial, uncooperative,
ungenial, unsubmissive, unsympathetic, unyielding, up in arms,
vile, withstanding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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