1. Serving or tending to repel
   "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
   - rebarbative, repellant 
2. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
   "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"
   - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky, loathful [archaic], yukky 
3. Incapable of absorbing or mixing with
   "a water-repellent fabric"
   - resistant

1. A compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
   - repellant 
2. A chemical substance that repels animals
   - repellant 
3. The power to repel
   "she knew many repellents to his advances"
   - repellant

Derived forms: repellents

See also: nonabsorbent, nonabsorptive, offensive, repel, unpleasant

Type of: chemical compound, compound, power, powerfulness

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