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English Dictionary: repellant by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repellant
adj
  1. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
n
  1. a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
    Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
  2. a chemical substance that repels animals
    Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
  3. the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
    Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
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