insect repellent

1. 1.

   a chemical substance that repels insects

   Synonymsinsectifugeinsect repellant

   Broaderrepellent

Questions about insect repellent

What does insect repellent mean?

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

What is another word for insect repellent?

Close synonyms include insectifuge, insect repellant. 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 repellent a common word?

insect repellent 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.