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repelling (root: repel)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective repelling has 1 sense
- repelling(s = adj.all) disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
THESAURUS
repelling
antigravity, awful, centrifugal force, diamagnetic, diamagnetism, disaffinity, dreadful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, magnetic repulsion, mutual repulsion, of opposite polarity, offensive, polarization, repellence, repellency, repellent, repugnant, repulsion, repulsive, revolting, terribleROGET THESAURUS
repelling
Repulsion
N repulsion, driving from, repulse, abduction, magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation, antigravity, repelling, repellent, repulsive, abducent, abductive, centripetal, like charges repel, opposite charges attract, like poles repel, opposite poles attract.
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