What is the meaning of repellent?

noun

• A compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water.
  • synonyms: repellant
• A chemical substance that repels animals.
  • synonyms: repellant
• The power to repel.
  • usage: "she knew many repellents to his advances"
  • synonyms: repellant

adjective

• Serving or tending to repel.
  • usage: "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
  • synonyms: rebarbative, repellant
• Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust.
  • usage: "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
  • synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
• Incapable of absorbing or mixing with.
  • usage: "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water"
  • synonyms: resistant