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Dictionary Definition

repellant adj
1 serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent]
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, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]

Noun

1 a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellent]
2 a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent]
3 the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent]

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English

Adjective

repellant
  1. misspelling of repellent

Noun

repellant
  1. misspelling of repellent
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