insect repellant

1. 1.

   a chemical substance that repels insects

   Synonymsinsectifugeinsect repellent

   Broaderrepellent

Questions about insect repellant

What does insect repellant mean?

insect repellant means "a chemical substance that repels insects".

What is another word for insect repellant?

Close synonyms include insectifuge, insect repellent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is insect repellant a common word?

insect repellant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.