repellant
    adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and
           prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness
           repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent, 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, repellent,
       repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked,
       yucky]
    n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
         [syn: repellent, repellant]
    2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent,
       repellant]
    3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his
       advances" [syn: repellent, repellant]