repellent

Adjective

• incapable of absorbing or mixing with
  • a water-repellent fabric
    
  • plastic highly resistant to steam and water
    

• 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
    

• serving or tending to repel
  • he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful
    
  • I find his obsequiousness repellent
    

Noun

• the power to repel
  • she knew many repellents to his advances
    

• a chemical substance that repels animals

• a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  resistant , rebarbative , repellant