REPELLANT

disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

(adjective) 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”

rebarbative, repellent, repellant

(adjective) serving or tending to repel; “he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful”; “I find his obsequiousness repellent”

repellent, repellant

(noun) the power to repel; “she knew many repellents to his advances”

repellent, repellant

(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals

repellent, repellant

(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

repellant (comparative more repellant, superlative most repellant)

Alternative form of repellent

Noun

repellant (plural repellants)

Alternative form of repellent

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee press is 230 cm (7 ft 6 in) in height and 72 cm (2 ft 4 in) in diameter and was created by Salzillo Tea and Coffee (Spain) in Murcia, Spain, in February 2007. The cafetière consists of a stainless steel container, a filtering piston, and a superior lid.

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