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(adj) disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, repellent, repelling, revolting, wicked, yucky, foul, loathly, loathsome, skanky
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
(adj) rebarbative, repellent
serving or tending to repel
he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful; I find his obsequiousness repellent
(noun) repellent
the power to repel
she knew many repellents to his advances
(noun) repellent
a chemical substance that repels animals
(noun) repellent
a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water