Repellent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repellent \Re*pel"lent\ (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p.
     pr. ]
     Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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