Disagreeable vs Repellent - What's the difference?
disagreeable | repellent | Related terms |
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
tending or able to repel; driving back
repulsive, inspiring aversion
* '>citation
resistant or impervious to something
someone who repels
a substance used to repel insects
a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something
As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and repellent
is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back.As nouns the difference between disagreeable and repellent
is that disagreeable is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable while repellent is someone who repels.disagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
- (rfdate) That which is disagreeable''' to one is many times agreeable to another, or '''disagreeable in a less degree. --Wollaston.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.Antonyms
* agreeableNoun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.