- repellent (to somebody) (formal)
very unpleasant; causing strong dislike 使人反感的；令人厌恶的 I found the pictures repellent. 我觉得这些照片令人厌恶。 Their political ideas are repellent to most people. 他们的政治观点令大多数人反感。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- find somebody/something
- extremely
- fairly
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(in compounds 构成复合词 not letting a particular substance, especially water, pass through it 防…的；隔绝…的 water-repellent cloth 防水布 mutually repellent substances such as oil and water 如油和水这类不融合的物质
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin repellent- ‘driving back’, from the verb repellere, from re- ‘back’ + pellere ‘to drive’.