REPELLANT Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

repellent

adjective

ri-ˈpe-lənt

variants also repellant

Definition of repellent

as in disgusting

causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment your snobbish behavior towards my friends is so repellent I can't stand to be around you anymore

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Recent Examples of repellent To be clear, this isn’t a repellent but actually an insecticide. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 June 2026 Spacey, who played the morally repellent politician Frank Underwood on the Netflix drama, was ousted from the series in 2017 not long after production began on the sixth and final season. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026 This means ensuring they are armed with protective sun gear, swim gear, and bug repellent. — Parents, 26 May 2026 Using it to spray on materials, like clothing, is OK, but it is not advised to use insect-repellant spray on the skin. — Gavin Escott, USA Today, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for repellent

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Adjective

Deer-Proof Your Garden To keep your flowers from being gobbled up by deer—one of the most heartbreaking of all garden misfortunes—choose flowers that people find glorious and deer find disgusting.

— Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
Where critics see disgusting piles of stuff, hoarders see more.

— Shivali H. Patra, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of disgusting

Adjective

The deals defined one of the ugliest chapters of Russia’s transition to capitalism in the 1990s.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Leaders must be grounded in self-awareness and their influence, leaning into emotional intelligence and humility; recognizing that different styles shape how people show up amid many influences, good, bad and ugly.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of ugly

Adjective

Torres – one of Barcelona’s key men up front – had been having an awful tournament, missing a plethora of chances throughout Spain’s campaign and being benched after starting against Cape Verde.

— Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
In a clearing in the forest, his younger selves sit at a long table with the abbott, who is wearing the final boss of season three’s awful wigs.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Definition of awful

Adjective

The 2022 spill was the largest ever from the Keystone pipeline, killing or sickening 2,700 animals.

— Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
But there are multiple Ebola strains, and those vaccines, treatments, and tests aren’t effective against the rarer strain, Bundibugyo, sickening people today.

— Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2026

Definition of sickening

Adjective

And, for all the theater of the hearing and Wyper’s expressions of sympathy with aldermen, the Stonepeak executive didn’t offer any meaningful concessions to make this obnoxious meter deal more palatable for Chicagoans.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
The song’s spacious production lets its piercing saxophone riffs dissipate into silence, only for borderline obnoxious horns to swirl them back into rhythm.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026

Definition of obnoxious

Adjective

The ace endured a rocky start punctuated by a hideous 11-run blowup in Minnesota and has now been sidelined with a shoulder injury since April 26.

— Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
Everyone's favorite hideous ogre and delusional donkey are finally reunited.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026

Definition of hideous

Adjective

Yet somehow, two decades later, the viciously antisemitic Vichy regime planted itself in power; a shocking betrayal by France of some of its most loyal and generous supporters, in a dehumanizing toxic swamp of suspicion, judgment, envy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
As shocking as the scandal surrounding Terrion Arnold is, the 2024 first-round pick had not played that well, and the Lions could be better without him.

— Vic Tafur, New York Times, 17 July 2026

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