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repellant

 
Adjective repellant has 2 senses
  1. rebarbative, repellent, repellant - serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
    Antonym: pleasant (indirect, via unpleasant)
  2. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky - 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"
    Antonym: inoffensive (indirect, via offensive)
Noun repellant has 3 senses
  1. repellent, repellant - a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
    --1 is a kind of compound, chemical compound
  2. repellent, repellant - a chemical substance that repels animals
    --2 is a kind of compound, chemical compound
    --2 has particulars: insectifuge, insect repellent, insect repellant
    Derived form: verb repel2
  3. repellent, repellant - the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
    --3 is a kind of power, powerfulness
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