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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: 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" [syn: 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 [syn: repellent, repellant]
2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent, repellant]
3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent, repellant]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective see repellent I II. noun see repellent II

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see repellent