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Definition of repellent : 1. A kind of waterproof cloth.
2. A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
3. Driving back; able or tending to repel.
4. That which repels.

Synonyms:

nauseating, bomb, cheating, disgustful, fulsome, sickening, dirty, nauseous, noisome, rancid, nonabsorptive, fungicidal, tolerant, implike, rebarbative, marked-up, immune, disgusting, yucky, unsportsmanlike, scandalous, funky, stinking, impish, ill-scented, fungicide, queasy, citronella, pixilated, insubordinate, appalling, repelling, gross, dip, DDT, awful, resistive, fetid, noxious, foetid, prankish, germicide, loathly, distasteful, filthy, unsavory, mischievous, horrible, puckish, repellant, dreadful, unwholesome, fouled, foul-smelling, nasty, severe, afoul, shocking, unholy, smutty, detestable, cruddy, horrid, obscene, arch, smelly, skanky, nonabsorbent, pain, camphor, horrendous, like, unsporting, flypaper, flyswatter, obnoxious, unsavoury

detrimental, abominable, evil, reprehensible, offensive, nefarious, baneful, monstrous, revolting, bad, atrocious, disgraceful, sinister, destructive, terrible, heinous, sinful, wicked, calamitous, damnable, foul, loathsome

despicable, mean, vile, low, contemptible

off-putting

oppositional, resistant

ill-looking, unlovely, disfigured, plain, odious, unattractive, homely, displeasing, unappealing, abhorrent, ugly, repugnant, shapeless, disagreeable, unsightly, unpleasant, unaesthetic, unpleasing, repulsive, hideous, grotesque, undesirable, inelegant

Usage examples:

• Repellent as it was, Mr. Henley's idea that the explanation of his daughter's conduct was to be found in the renewed influence over her of the Irish lord, now presented itself to Hugh's mind under a new point of view. - "Blind Love", Wilkie Collins.
• It is passing strange how every writer remains silent about the ugly and repellent side of Frederick. - "German Problems and Personalities", Charles Sarolea.
• In her rusty black clothes, unrelieved by any trace of colour, her white cheeks and strange eyes, even in the morning light she was a repellent figure. - "The Great Impersonation", E. Phillips Oppenheim.