Antonyms for repellent
rɪˈpɛl əntre·pel·lent

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1. repellent

   Antonyms:
   agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable

   Synonyms:
   arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, offensive, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasant

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1. repellent, repellantnoun

   a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, inoffensive, absorptive, absorbent

   Synonyms:
   repellant

2. repellent, repellantnoun

   a chemical substance that repels animals

   Antonyms:
   absorptive, inoffensive, absorbent, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   repellant

3. repellent, repellantadjective

   the power to repel

   "she knew many repellents to his advances"

   Antonyms:
   absorptive, absorbent, inoffensive, pleasant

   Synonyms:
   repellant

4. rebarbative, repellent, repellantadjective

   serving or tending to repel

   "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"

   Antonyms:
   absorbent, pleasant, inoffensive, absorptive

   Synonyms:
   loathly, repellant, disgustful, rebarbative, disgusting, resistant, yucky, wicked, revolting, loathsome, foul, distasteful, repelling, skanky

5. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   inoffensive, pleasant, absorbent, absorptive

   Synonyms:
   filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, foul, implike, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, distasteful, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, loathsome, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellant

6. repellent, resistantadjective

   incapable of absorbing or mixing with

   "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"

   Antonyms:
   absorbent, pleasant, absorptive, inoffensive

   Synonyms:
   resistant, wicked, loathly, rebarbative, repelling, disgusting, loathsome, immune, resistive, revolting, distasteful, disgustful, tolerant, foul, yucky, skanky, repellant, insubordinate

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1. repellentadjective

   Synonyms:
   repulsive, repelling

How to use repellent in a sentence?

1. Margaret Chan:

   We feel that the risk of Zika infection is low for an individual, and it is manageable, as long as individuals take appropriate personal protective measures, including the use of a mosquito repellent, including wearing clothing that prevents mosquito bites.

2. Nancy Messonnier:

   As we work to better understand what's causing AFM, parents can help protect their children by washing your hands, staying up to date on recommended vaccines and using insect repellent to prevent mosquito bites.

3. Pedro Pierluisi:

   There is no reason for alarm, and the public should continue to take common sense steps to avoid mosquito bites, like using repellent and wearing long pants and shirts.

4. So I Married an Axe Murderer:

   Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

5. Brandi MacDonald:

   For all we know, maybe theyre just mining a whole bunch of bug repellent.

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