Definition for Repel:

• be repellent to; cause aversion in

Synonyms for Repel:

• n.

  •
  • absorb,
  • conduct,
  • decompress,
  • deflect,
  • drive away,
  • fail,
  • fall,
  • hold back,
  • magnetize,
  • pressurise,
  • pressurize,
  • stave off,
  • ward off.
  •
  • balk,
  • cast aside,
  • deign,
  • disinclination,
  • dismiss,
  • grudge,
  • refuse,
  • scorn.
  •
  • allow,
  • drive off,
  • fend,
  • fend off,
  • hold off,
  • keep off,
  • parry,
  • strike.
  •
  • carry,
  • cause,
  • communicate,
  • develop,
  • give,
  • infect,
  • like,
  • spread,
  • transmit.
  •
  • close,
  • exclude.
  •repel (noun)
  • beat back,
  • disgust,
  • drive,
  • drive back,
  • fight off,
  • force back,
  • push back,
  • rebuff,
  • repulse,
  • revolt,
  • snub,
  • brush off.

• v.

  •displease (verb)
  • aggrieve,
  • anger,
  • annoy,
  • bother,
  • disappoint,
  • disgust,
  • displease,
  • disturb,
  • grate,
  • irritate,
  • jar,
  • offend,
  • provoke,
  • rile,
  • scandalize,
  • shock.
  •emotion (verb)
  • repulse.
  •induce aversion (verb)
  • disgust,
  • offend,
  • repulse,
  • revolt,
  • sicken,
  • turn off,
  • turn one's stomach,
  • Reluct,
  • give a pain in neck,
  • make sick.
  •oppose (verb)
  • antagonize,
  • challenge,
  • check,
  • conflict,
  • confront,
  • contradict,
  • counter,
  • counteract,
  • counterattack,
  • cross,
  • defy,
  • disagree,
  • dispute,
  • fight,
  • hinder,
  • impede,
  • inhibit,
  • intercept,
  • interfere,
  • meddle,
  • object,
  • obstruct,
  • oppose,
  • oppress,
  • protest,
  • rebuff,
  • repress,
  • repulse,
  • resist,
  • suppress.
  •push away; repulse (verb)
  • beat back,
  • buck,
  • cast aside,
  • chase away,
  • check,
  • confront,
  • cool,
  • cut,
  • decline,
  • dismiss,
  • disown,
  • dispute,
  • drive away,
  • drive back,
  • drive off,
  • duel,
  • fend off,
  • fight,
  • force back,
  • hold back,
  • hold off,
  • keep off,
  • kick,
  • oppose,
  • parry,
  • push back,
  • rebuff,
  • rebut,
  • refuse,
  • reject,
  • resist,
  • stave off,
  • traverse,
  • turn down,
  • ward off,
  • withstand,
  • brush off,
  • stand up against,
  • beat off,
  • put to flight,
  • force off,
  • give cold shoulder to,
  • keep at arm's length,
  • keep at bay.
  •repulse (verb)
  • reject,
  • snub,
  • spurn.
  •resist (verb)
  • stand fast,
  • stand firm,
  • withstand.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • absorb,
  • conduct,
  • decompress,
  • deign,
  • disinclination,
  • dismiss,
  • magnetize,
  • parry,
  • pressurize,
  • scorn.
  •
  • frighten,
  • grudge.
  •
  • balk.
  •
  • turn off.
  •
  • ward.
  •
  • keep.
  •
  • close.
  •back
  • drive back,
  • Retrocede.
  •defend
  • fight back.
  •defy
  • spurn.
  •dismiss
  • push aside,
  • push back,
  • send off.
  •estrange
  • disaffect.
  •fend off
  • keep off,
  • stave off,
  • turn aside,
  • hold at bay,
  • keep arm's length,
  • keep at arm's length.
  •frighten
  • scarify.
  •keep off
  • fend off.
  •nauseate
  • Reluct.
  •parry
  • fend.
  •refuse
  • turn away,
  • refuse to receive,
  • turn from.
  •reject
  • cast aside.
  •repulse
  • throw back,
  • give pain.
  •resist
  • keep from.
  •revolt
  • gross out,
  • make sick,
  • turn stomach.
  •sicken
  • turn one's stomach.
  •turn off
  • disenchant,
  • make one sick.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abduce,
  • abduct,
  • abhorrent,
  • abjure,
  • abnegation,
  • absorb,
  • acquire,
  • affect,
  • afflict,
  • aim,
  • alienate,
  • allow,
  • anticipate,
  • appal,
  • appall,
  • astonish,
  • astound,
  • attain,
  • avert,
  • avoid,
  • back,
  • baffle,
  • balk,
  • banish,
  • bar,
  • baulk,
  • bear up,
  • beat back,
  • become,
  • blackball,
  • block,
  • blunt,
  • bore,
  • bowl over,
  • brush aside,
  • buck,
  • calm,
  • care,
  • carry,
  • cast aside,
  • catch,
  • cause,
  • chase,
  • chase away,
  • chill,
  • chuck,
  • chuck out,
  • churn up,
  • close,
  • combat,
  • communicate,
  • compel,
  • condemn,
  • conduct,
  • confinement,
  • conservation,
  • contemn,
  • conterminous,
  • contest,
  • cool,
  • corrode,
  • cripple,
  • custody,
  • cut,
  • damp,
  • dampen,
  • daze,
  • debar,
  • decline,
  • decompress,
  • defeat,
  • defence,
  • defend,
  • defender,
  • defense,
  • deflect,
  • deign,
  • denial,
  • deny,
  • deprecate,
  • depress,
  • despise,
  • detention,
  • deter,
  • develop,
  • deviation,
  • disaffect,
  • disallow,
  • disapprove,
  • discard,
  • disclaim,
  • discompose,
  • discount,
  • discourage,
  • disdain,
  • disenchant,
  • disgusting,
  • dishearten,
  • disillusion,
  • disinclination,
  • disincline,
  • disinterest,
  • dislike,
  • dismiss,
  • dismissal,
  • disobey,
  • disorderly,
  • disown,
  • dispel,
  • dispirit,
  • disquiet,
  • disregard,
  • dissent,
  • distract,
  • distress,
  • divert,
  • draw,
  • drive,
  • drive away,
  • drive back,
  • drive off,
  • drop,
  • duel,
  • dumbfound,
  • endure,
  • envenom,
  • estrange,
  • except,
  • exclude,
  • exclusion,
  • excommunicate,
  • exile,
  • expatriate,
  • expel,
  • fail,
  • fall,
  • fatigue,
  • fend,
  • fend off,
  • fetid,
  • fierce,
  • fight back,
  • fight off,
  • filthy,
  • flabbergast,
  • flagitious,
  • foetid,
  • foil,
  • forbid,
  • force,
  • force back,
  • foreclose,
  • forestall,
  • forswear,
  • foul,
  • freak,
  • freeze,
  • frighten,
  • frightful,
  • frustrate,
  • fulsome,
  • funky,
  • gain,
  • garrison,
  • get,
  • ghastly,
  • ghoulish,
  • give,
  • gnaw,
  • grasp,
  • grisly,
  • gross out,
  • grudge,
  • gruesome,
  • guard,
  • guardian,
  • guardianship,
  • halt,
  • hamper,
  • hamstring,
  • heinous,
  • hellish,
  • help,
  • hold,
  • hold back,
  • hold off,
  • hold out,
  • hold up,
  • horrify,
  • horrifying,
  • ignore,
  • impel,
  • in opposition,
  • incense,
  • indispose,
  • infect,
  • jilt,
  • jolt,
  • keep,
  • keep back,
  • keep off,
  • kick,
  • labor,
  • labour,
  • like,
  • loathsome,
  • lousy,
  • lurid,
  • magnetize,
  • maroon,
  • meet,
  • motor,
  • nauseate,
  • negation,
  • negative,
  • neutralize,
  • nullify,
  • numb,
  • obviate,
  • ostracize,
  • outlaw,
  • outrage,
  • pall,
  • paralyse,
  • parry,
  • pass by,
  • pass up,
  • perturb,
  • petrify,
  • preclude,
  • pressurise,
  • pressurize,
  • prevent,
  • prohibit,
  • propel,
  • proscribe,
  • protect,
  • protection,
  • protector,
  • push,
  • push aside,
  • push away,
  • push back,
  • put,
  • put back,
  • put out,
  • quench,
  • quiet,
  • ram,
  • rankle,
  • rebut,
  • recant,
  • refusal,
  • refuse,
  • rejection,
  • renounce,
  • repellent,
  • repelling,
  • repudiate,
  • repudiation,
  • repulsion,
  • rescind,
  • restrain,
  • reverse,
  • revoke,
  • revolt,
  • ride,
  • roil,
  • rule out,
  • save,
  • scare,
  • scarify,
  • scorn,
  • scout,
  • screen out,
  • send away,
  • send back,
  • send packing,
  • shake,
  • sicken,
  • sickening,
  • slight,
  • spread,
  • stagger,
  • stand,
  • startle,
  • stave off,
  • stop,
  • strike,
  • stun,
  • stupefy,
  • stymie,
  • surprise,
  • survive,
  • take,
  • throw,
  • throw away,
  • throw back,
  • throw out,
  • thrust,
  • thwart,
  • transmit,
  • traumatize,
  • traverse,
  • tug,
  • turn,
  • turn away,
  • turn back,
  • turn down,
  • turn off,
  • turn one's stomach,
  • unanimous,
  • unsettle,
  • upset,
  • waive,
  • wamble,
  • ward,
  • ward off,
  • wean,
  • Dumfound,
  • Estop,
  • Reluct,
  • Repeller,
  • Retrocede,
  • Retrude,
  • brush off,
  • send off,
  • show the door,
  • Propugn,
  • keep from,
  • throw over,
  • turn aside,
  • cry off,
  • fence off,
  • pack off,
  • set against,
  • urge forward,
  • deny oneself,
  • refuse to acknowledge,
  • disapprove of,
  • give offense,
  • cut dead,
  • send to Coventry,
  • stand up against,
  • beat off,
  • throw into confusion,
  • refuse to consider,
  • put to flight,
  • be distasteful,
  • bear up against,
  • drive apart,
  • force off,
  • freeze out,
  • give a pain in neck,
  • give a turn,
  • give cold shoulder to,
  • give pain,
  • give the boot,
  • give the brush,
  • hold at bay,
  • keep arm's length,
  • keep at arm's length,
  • keep at bay,
  • make ill,
  • make one sick,
  • make sick,
  • refuse to receive,
  • say no to,
  • sow dissension,
  • thrust back,
  • turn from,
  • turn one off,
  • turn stomach.

Antonyms for Repel:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    absorb, accept, agree, aid, allow, allure, appeal, approve, assist, attract, beguile, bewitch, bow, capitulate, captivate, charm, curl, curl up, delight, disarm, draw, draw in, embrace, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, entice, entrance, fascinate, give in, gratify, hail, help, increase, interest, intrigue, invite, knuckle under, lure, please, pull, rejoice, retract, sanction, seduce, stoop, stoop to, submit, succumb, support, surrender, tempt, tickle, yield, pull in, bow to, submit to, appeal to, yield to, surrender to, give in to, let through, succumb to, knuckle under to, capitulate to.

• v.

  • emotion
    attract.
  • induce aversion
    appeal, enchant, please.
  • push away; repulse
    accept, agree, aid, allow, approve, assist, attract, draw, help, increase, sanction, support.
  • Other antonyms:
    allure, appeal, attract, beguile, bewitch, bow, capitulate, captivate, charm, delight, disarm, draw, draw in, embrace, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, entice, entrance, fascinate, give in, gratify, hail, interest, intrigue, knuckle under, lure, please, pull, rejoice, seduce, stoop, submit, succumb, surrender, tempt, tickle, welcome, yield.