Usually means: Repels water, avoids moisture contact.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word hydrophobic:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hydrophobic: Merriam-Webster
  2. hydrophobic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hydrophobic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hydrophobic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hydrophobic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hydrophobic, hydrophobic: Wordnik
  7. hydrophobic: Wiktionary
  8. hydrophobic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hydrophobic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hydrophobic: Dictionary.com
  11. Hydrophobic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hydrophobic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hydrophobic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hydrophobic: Rhymezone
  15. Hydrophobic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hydrophobic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. hydrophobic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hydrophobic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hydrophobic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hydrophobic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hydrophobic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. hydrophobic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hydrophobic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hydrophobic: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. hydrophobic: Natural History Terms

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Hydrophobic: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hydrophobicity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hydrophobic)

adjective:  Of, or having, hydrophobia (rabies).
adjective:  (physics, chemistry) Lacking an affinity for water; unable to absorb or to be wetted by water.

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