repellent
Plural: repellents
Noun
- a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
- a chemical substance that repels animals
- the power to repel
- "she knew many repellents to his advances"
- A substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests.
- A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.
- Someone or something that repels.
Adjective Satellite
- serving or tending to repel
- "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"
- incapable of absorbing or mixing with
- "a water-repellent fabric"
Adj
- Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
- Resistant or impervious to something.
- Tending or able to repel; driving back.
Examples
- All that fabric's supposed to be dust-repellent.
- None of the mosquito repellents we've tried work.
- The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.
- These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.
- They applied dirt repellent to the sports car.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin repellēns. Equivalent to repel + -ent.
Synonyms
disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, rebarbative, repellant, repelling, resistant, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Scrabble Score: 11
repellent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrepellent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
repellent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary