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Meaning of repellent


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  repellent
      adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and
             prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness
             repellent" [syn: {rebarbative}, {repellent}, {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}, {repellent},
         {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:
         {repellent}, {resistant}]
      n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
           [syn: {repellent}, {repellant}]
      2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: {repellent},
         {repellant}]
      3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his
         advances" [syn: {repellent}, {repellant}]


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