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Repellent vs Unsavoury - What's the difference?

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Repellent is a related term of unsavoury.


As adjectives the difference between repellent and unsavoury

is that repellent is tending or able to repel; driving back while unsavoury is (british).

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
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  • 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

    • unsavoury

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British)
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".}}