REPELLANT

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

(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; ā€œa disgusting smellā€; ā€œdistasteful languageā€; ā€œa loathsome diseaseā€; ā€œthe idea of eating meat is repellent to meā€; ā€œrevolting foodā€; ā€œa wicked stenchā€

rebarbative, repellent, repellant

(adjective) serving or tending to repel; ā€œhe became rebarbative and prickly and spitefulā€; ā€œI find his obsequiousness repellentā€

repellent, repellant

(noun) the power to repel; ā€œshe knew many repellents to his advancesā€

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

29 March 2025

THOUGHTLESS

(adjective) without care or thought for others; ā€œthe thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ā€˜Let them eat cakeā€™ā€


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Coffee Trivia

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.

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