'Repelling' definitions:
Definition of 'repelling'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
Definition of 'Repelling'
From: GCIDE
- Repel \Re**pel"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repelled (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repelling.] [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Repulse, Repeal.]
- 1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. [1913 Webster]
- Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [1913 Webster]
- [He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'repelling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antigravity,
- awful,
- centrifugal force,
- diamagnetic,
- diamagnetism,
- disaffinity,
- dreadful,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- frightful,
- ghastly,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- hideous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- loathsome,
- magnetic repulsion,
- mutual repulsion,
- of opposite polarity,
- offensive,
- polarization,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- repulsion,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- terrible