Repellent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REPELLENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something that repels
• a substance that deters insects or other pests from approaching or settling
• a substance used to treat something, especially fabric or stone, so as to make it impervious to water
• That which repels.
• A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
• A kind of waterproof cloth.
• a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
• a chemical substance that repels animals
• the power to repel
• something that repels, esp a chemical to repel insects
ADJECTIVE:
• serving to repel, also REPELLANT
• able to repel a particular thing; impervious to a particular substance
• causing disgust or distaste
• Driving back; able or tending to repel.
• serving or tending to repel
• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
• incapable of absorbing or mixing with
• distasteful
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• serving or tending to drive away or ward off —often used in combination

Words related to REPELLENT

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Words that contain REPELLENT

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How to use REPELLENT in a sentence

• In ten years she would be fat, shapeless, dirty, and repellent.
• Instantly, instinctively, like similar repellent poles, they sprang apart.
• The suggestion of Vincent nervously worrying over trifles was one of the most repellent pictures that had ever been presented to her imagination.
• Her tone is almost repellent, although it is to Margaret she speaks.
• THERE is something repellent to me, even at this distance of time, in looking back at the dreary days, of seclusion which followed each other monotonously in my Highland home.
• Her aspect was painfully repellent, the more for this pathetic attempt at good looks.
• What has been added to religious expression is repellent.
• Let a woman make success in a trade or profession her exclusive and sufficient ambition, and the result, though it may be brilliant, is repellent.
• There was nothing, I am sure, personally repellent about her.
• Grave, severe, self-restrained, and, except to those who knew him intimately, somewhat repellent in manners.
• Yet the face of Meshach Milburn, if more repellent, was uncommon.
• Her very beauty was of the type almost repellent to the strictly normal and healthy man.
• It seemed to her, too, a hard face, too determined in expression, repellent almost.
• The cheerful soul of the room had passed from it with the fire, leaving the shell gloomy, lifeless, repellent.
• We have become too humane for the triumphs of Caesar to be anything but repellent to us.
• Only the great strength of your passions has saved you from hardening into an ugly and repellent woman.
• On the other hand, she had not been prim or repellent.
• His unattractive person even then, however, showed some of the most repellent peculiarities of his father and his race.
• The want of life and of a definite personal character makes it almost repellent, notwithstanding the breadth and easy mastery of the technique.
• Kai-moo, she continued, might be regarded as fashioned like herself, being deformed in shape and repellent in appearance.
• My good mother, twenty-five years of virtue are always repellent, like a badly treated disease.
• Then the life of my own wealthy and cultured class became repellent to me, for it had lost all meaning whatever.
• Even with their gradual recognition it would have been difficult to introduce the English system of tenure, which was radically different and repellent to the Irish mind.
• That would be a cold stern repellent insistence on certain high standards.
• Not one bird had I seen on it that cold, repellent middle of March.
• The long mill buildings of gray stone with their rows of deep-set windows wore a repellent look of strength and solidity.
• This familiarity of the animals took away from the islands all that was repellent in their solitude.

Similar words containing PELL without suffix ent and without prefix re

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