Definitions for repellent

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repellent re·pel·lent

Spelling: [ri-pel-uh nt]

IPA: /rɪˈpɛl ənt/

Repellent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in repellent (eeellnprt).

Definitions for repellent

adjective

1. causing distaste or aversion; repulsive.
2. forcing or driving back.
3. serving or tending to ward off or drive away.
4. impervious or resistant to something (often used in combination):

noun

1. something that repels, as a substance that keeps away insects.
2. a medicine that serves to prevent or reduce swellings, tumors, etc.
3. any of various durable or nondurable solutions applied to a fabric, garment, surface, etc., to increase its resistance, as to water, moths, mildew, etc.

Origin of repellent

1635-45; Latin repellent- (stem of repellēns), present participle of repellere to drive back. See repel, -ent

Examples for repellent

He grew daily more sullen and repellent, toward Albert noticeably so.

It was a repellent caricature, but could still be very funny.

This she did (we are not told how), and Beethoven reacted with ‘repellent coldness’.

It was a man of repellent aspect whom she recognised instantly, for Jno.

He had found the only way, and repellent though it might be to him, he must take it.

There was something fascinating as well as repellent about the woods.

At first it seems the repellent extends to the men in her life.

Among those matriarchs are countless Italian women who have told me that they find our own sexual politics “repellent” and “sad.”

repellent differences and dislikes separate them from mankind.

As much as America finds President Zardari repellent, we in Pakisan do, too.