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Repellent   /rɪpˈɛlənt/   Listen
noun
Repellent  n.  
1.
That which repels.
2.
(Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
3.
A kind of waterproof cloth.


adjective
Repellent  adj.  Driving back; able or tending to repel.





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"Repellent" Quotes from Famous Books



... be myself—silent and sullen as my barbarous host. If any malignant purpose was taking form in his mind, let it, and let him do his worst; for when failure first stares a man in the face, it has so dark and repellent a look that not anything that can be added can make him more miserable; nor has he any apprehension. For weeks I had been searching with eager, feverish eyes in every village, in every rocky crevice, in every noisy mountain ...
— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson
... Force, and its association with the universe at large, there was seen at once the necessity of another Force, of an opposite character, which would form the companion and complementary force to Attraction; a repulsive, repellent force, one tending or repelling from a centre, so as to counterbalance the influence of the Centripetal Force which ever tends ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper
... of associating any want of refinement and good breeding with such a charming creature never entered his mind. The disenchantment to him was already so complete that he was even disagreeably affected by the tone of her voice: it was almost as repellent to him as the exhibition of unrestrained bad temper which she ...
— Little Novels • Wilkie Collins
... had only given me news of yourself without sending me anything else, how rich and how grateful you would have made me; instead of that the pullets are eaten, and the best thing I can do is to forget all about them; let us say no more."[25] Rude and repellent as this may seem, and as it is, there is a rough kind of playfulness about it, when compared with the truculence which he was not slow to exhibit to men. If a friend presumed to thank him for any service, he was peremptorily rebuked for his ignorance ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... there was something masterful about the red-capped stranger, at the same time, repellent. The crowd of aliens moreover, he noticed, fell away respectfully. The newcomer was evidently a personage ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton


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