- Types Of Speech
- You can use repellent as a noun or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Repellent
- A 3 syllables noun and 9 letters with the letters e, l, n, p, r, and t, 6 consonants, 3 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter l. Repellent starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters r, re, rep, repe, repel, and the ending characters are t, nt, ent, lent, llent, . Repellent is also a double consonant (ll) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- The power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- Compound Words
- A compound word, repellent has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are repel, and lent.
- School Grade
- Repellent is set as a sat word that starts with r, ends with t, 3 syllables, 3 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Repellent in Pig Latin is said as "epellentray or epellentrway".
- Unigram
- r | e | p | e | l | l | e | n | t
- Bigram
- re | ep | pe | el | ll | le | en | nt
- Trigram
- rep | epe | pel | ell | lle | len | ent
- Quadrigram
- repe | epel | pell | elle | llen | lent
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- 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
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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"
Synonym | Definition |
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Abhorrent | offensive to the mind "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
Atrocious | provoking horror "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
Awful | causing fear or dread or terror "the awful war" "an awful risk" "dire news" "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" "the dread presence of the headmaster" "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" "a dreadful storm" " |
Ban | a decree that prohibits something |
Banning | an official prohibition or edict against something |
Base | a support or foundation "the base of the lamp" |
Beastly | resembling a beast showing lack of human sensibility "beastly desires" "a bestial nature" "brute force" "a dull and brutish man" "bestial treatment of prisoners" |
Below Contempt | |
Beneath Contempt |
View all cognitive synonyms for Repellent
Anagram | Definition |
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Repellent | the power to repel "she knew many repellents to his advances" |
View English words with the unique letters used in repellent. Words With The Letters Elnprt
Word | Definition |
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Power | physical strength |
Powerfulness | possession of controlling influence "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons" "the power of his love saved her" "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" |
Repellent Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With R
- Ends With T
- Spelled With / Contains Letters