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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repellant
adjective
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}, {skanky}, {wicked}, {yucky}]
noun
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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