repellent
adjective/rɪˈpelənt/
/rɪˈpelənt/
- repellent (to somebody) (formal) very unpleasant; causing strong dislike synonym repulsive
- I found the pictures repellent.
- Their political ideas are repellent to most people.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- find somebody/something
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- to
- (in compounds) not letting a particular substance, especially water, pass through it
- water-repellent cloth
- mutually repellent substances such as oil and water
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin repellent- ‘driving back’, from the verb repellere, from re- ‘back’ + pellere ‘to drive’.
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