Used often in sciences like chemistry and physics to describe molecules or materials.

Technical Use

Describes materials that are used to repel water in various applications.

Material Property

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe someone's aversion to something.

Metaphoric Speech

Used to describe animals or even people who avoid water.

Animals and Objects

More about avoidance or reluctance to interact with water, not only fear.

Not Just Fear

Can be used figuratively to highlight someone's dislike, not always literal.

Non-literal

 one of the items in it was the hydrophobic sand -- the sand that doesn't get wet. He said that he was playing with it with his son. And you know, his son was mesmerized, because he would dunk it in the water, he would take it out and it was bone dry. A few weeks later, he said that his son was playing with a lock of his mother's hair, and he noticed

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 from an incredibly high temperature and dehydration dehydration will also play an enormous role because as I said the animals hydrophobic it doesn't like water it's afraid of water I'm just gonna focus quite hard while

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Hydrophobic