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. Arthur Conan Doyle:

   The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

2. John Anderson:

   It's all about the absolute basics of personal hygiene. No windows open, full spray repellent and not putting yourself near water at night because that's when mosquitoes bite, in the slalom there is no stagnant water at all, it's crystal clear and chlorinated. But the sprint course is a natural lake in the middle of Rio so when the sun goes down, if you're there, there will be mosquitoes about.

3. Pina LoGiudice:

   They act as a repellent to the sun’s rays, creating a physical barrier rather than a chemical one.

4. 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.

5. Gillam Deputy Mayor John McDonald:

   We have sandflies, black flies, mosquitoes, horseflies, let me say if we were parked on a side street and we were having a conversation outside, and you didn't have any insect repellent on, or any long sleeves -- let's just say that we would cut our conversation short.

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