repellent English

Meaning repellent meaning

What does repellent mean?

repellent

— adjective (= resistant) incapable of absorbing or mixing with a water-repellent fabric plastic highly resistant to steam and water

— noun a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

— noun a chemical substance that repels animals

— noun (= repellant) the power to repel she knew many repellents to his advances

— adjective (= rebarbative, repellant) serving or tending to repel he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful I find his obsequiousness repellent

— adjective (= disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, repellant, revolting, wicked) 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

Synonyms repellent synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as repellent?

repellent English » English

repulsive

repellant

disgusting

revolting

repelling

resistant

repugnant

nasty

loathsome

foul

rebarbative

odious

horrible

hideous

distasteful

yucky

wicked

skanky

obnoxious

loathly

gruesome

forbidding

dreary

dismal

disgustful

awful

antioncotic

abhorrent

wretched

water-repellent

vile

use cosmetics

untempting

unpleasant

unbreakable

unattractive

tolerant

terrible

tenacious

sustainable

sturdy

strong

sordid

serviceable

running

repercussive

repeller

poisonous

piggish

ornament

Examples repellent examples

How do I use repellent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I need mosquito repellent.

Movie subtitles

Bring some mosquito repellent.

Full of moisture and insect repellent.

Have you the assurance to speak and face others without danger of being repellent?

It is to us that the sad. distressing, repellent duty falls, gentlemen.

But this other repellent child, Ito, he was very nervous and he sung like a mosquito.

Those repellent brain things didn't appreciate their significance, fortunately.

Sometimes saying you're married works better than an insect repellent.

Hand me down the shark-repellent Bat spray!

How should I know they'd have a can of shark-repellent Bat spray?

Open circuit breakers! Remove thrust drive repellent!

We find the subject most repellent. and we must ask you to observe this rule at all times.

You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin.

I assure you the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning 3 little children for their insurance money. and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

I have to say, I think you're one of the most repellent and flatulent-minded people I've ever met.

Full of moisture and insect repellent. Those women drunk.

Full repellent charge!

It is to us that the sad, distressing, repellent duty falls.

I am sure you've all heard the old wives' tale that no hypnotized subject may be forced to do that which is repellent to his moral nature, whatever that may be.

This is a mosquito repellent.

Am I so repellent?

It's repellent.

Furthermore, without syphilis I would never have been graced with this repellent face either, and those demons would have cut me in at least four pieces instead of running off, scared to death at the sight of me.

It smells like insect repellent.

Lizard repellent.

I find their way of life repellent and wrong.

Here, pass out this suntan oil and this bug repellent.

It is to us that the sad, distressing, repellent duty falls, gentlemen.

I am sure you've all heard the old wives' tale that no hypnotised subject may be forced to do that which is repellent to his moral nature, whatever that may be.

Mmm, there's something in it, and I know just how it could be done, but I have to pretend to fancy him and I find him repellent.

Now, please, go to the kitchen and take off those repellent rags!

That was before dust-repellent paper.

If you could see how repellent you look, you'd find it hard to decide- -which drawer to place yourself in.

Not mosquito repellent.

You also keep telling us that you have never met the Marquesa, yet here we have a letter from her to her husband, a nobleman of Spain detailing vile and repellent advances by you on her.

Is there something repellent about me?

Roz, a hippo cannot possibly be as repellent as a rabid matador killing an epileptic bull.

News and current affairs

Xenophobic views, or the denial of genocide, are repellent, but do not necessarily result in such a threat.

But appeasement of China for commercial gain apparently is not considered morally repellent.

Devoid of its Syrian alliance and estranged from Turkey, Iran would become an isolated revolutionary power whose fanatical brand of Islam is repellent to most Arab societies.