Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repellant"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
repellant
adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and
prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness
repellent" [syn: {rebarbative}, {repellent}]
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},
{repelling}, {revolting}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
[syn: {repellent}]
2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: {repellent}]
3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his
advances" [syn: {repellent}]
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