repellant

1. 1.

   serving or tending to repel

   “he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful”

   “I find his obsequiousness repellent”

   Synonymsrebarbativerepellent

   Similarunpleasant
2. 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”

   Synonymsdisgustingdisgustfuldistastefulfoulloathlyloathsomerepellentrepellingrevoltingskankywickedyucky

   Similaroffensive

Other forms of repellant

plural

repellants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about repellant

What does repellant mean?

repellant means "a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repellant?

repellant has 3 syllables and divides as re-pel-lant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for repellant?

Close synonyms include repellent, repellent, repellent, rebarbative, 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 repellant a common word?

repellant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.