Repellent vs Distasteful - What's the difference?
repellent | distasteful | Related terms |
tending or able to repel; driving back
repulsive, inspiring aversion
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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
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Repellent is a related term of distasteful.
As adjectives the difference between repellent and distasteful
is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.As a noun repellent
is someone who repels.repellent
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(wikipedia repellent)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}