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Repellent vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Repellent is a related term of forbidding.


As adjectives the difference between repellent and forbidding

is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

As nouns the difference between repellent and forbidding

is that repellent is someone who repels while forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

As a verb forbidding is

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repellent

English

(wikipedia repellent)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • tending or able to repel; driving back
  • repulsive, inspiring aversion
  • * '>citation
  • resistant or impervious to something

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who repels
  • a substance used to repel insects
  • a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something

    • forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.