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1. Serving or tending to repel
   "he became repellant and prickly and spiteful";
   - rebarbative, repellent
    
2. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
   - disgusting, disgustful [archaic], distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky [informal], wicked, yucky [informal], gross-out [informal], loathful [archaic], yukky [informal]

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

Derived forms: repellants

See also: offensive, unpleasant

Type of: chemical compound, compound, power, powerfulness