- 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)
- 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)
- repellent, resistant - incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"
Antonyms: absorbent, absorptive (indirect, via nonabsorbent)
- repellent, repellant - a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
--1 is a kind of compound, chemical compound
- repellent, repellant - a chemical substance that repels animals
--2 is a kind of compound, chemical compound
--2 has particulars: insectifuge, insect repellent, insect repellantDerived form: verb repel2 - repellent, repellant - the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
--3 is a kind of power, powerfulness