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"

a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

A compound that keeps or drives away insects, rodents, birds or other pests from plants, domestic animals, buildings or other treated areas.

the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"

a chemical substance that repels animals