repellent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: repellent	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for repellent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repellent adj serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" Synonym(s): rebarbative, repellent, repellant 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 incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" Synonym(s): repellent, resistant n a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water Synonym(s): repellent, repellant a chemical substance that repels animals Synonym(s): repellent, repellant the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repellent \Re*pel"lent\ (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repellent \Re*pel"lent\, n. 1. That which repels. 2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. --Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. --Knight.