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Repellent vs Hideous - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between repellent and hideous

is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while hideous is frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.

As a noun repellent

is someone who repels.

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

    • hideous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Frightful; shocking; extremely ugly.
    • A piteous and hideous spectacle." .
  • Distressing or offensive to the ear; horrible.
  • * 1719 ,
    • He started up, growling at first, but finding his leg broken, fell down again; and then got upon three legs, and gave the most hideous roar that ever I heard.
  • Hateful; shocking.
    • Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver. -

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "hideous" is often applied: monster, creature, man, face, thing, crime, form, death, aspect, spectacle, picture, roar, sound, manner, way, disease, mistake, shape, dress, fact, act, smile.

    Synonyms

    * frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, grotesque, horrid, dreadful, terrible

    Derived terms

    * hideosity * hideously * hideousness