repellent
ri pe luhnt
- n a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
- n a chemical substance that repels animals
- n the power to repel
she knew many repellents to his advances - s serving or tending to repel
I find his obsequiousness repellent - s highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me - s incapable of absorbing or mixing with
a water-repellent fabric
- The focus of its research, according to Matt Zimmer, promotions director, was the lightweight, water-repellent fabric and muscle contour compression.
- It's bad enough when a movie offers up atrocity scenes that would make the Nanking soldiers seem like Hannah Montana; it's repellent when the movie dresses up the sadism in a moral .
- Finnish yachtsmen have discovered that Johnson's ordinary Paste Wax keeps barnacles off boat bottoms, and Buganda tribesmen have found that its Off insect repellent deters the .