repellant
adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and
prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness
repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent]
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, repellent,
repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
[syn: repellent]
2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent]
3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his
advances" [syn: repellent]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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