repellent

adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and

prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness

repellent" [syn: {rebarbative}, {repellant}]

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}, {repellant},

{revolting}, {wicked}, {yucky}]

3: incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent

fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

[syn: {resistant}]

n : a chemical substance that repels [syn: {repellant}]