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rebarbative

/ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv/ UK
/ɹɪˈbɑɹbətɪv/ US

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From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent, disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”), ultimately from Latin barba (“beard”), literally “to stand beard to beard against”.

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Irritating, repellent. Poliziano took great pleasure in incorporating the new myths, facts, and variant readings he uncovered as a scholar in his own Latin poems and letters — and in pointing out that he had done so in his most rebarbative technical monographs.

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adj repellent

Deutsch	abstoßend
Русский	отта́лкивающий ottálkivajuščij

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@misc{rebarbative_2026,
  title = {rebarbative},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rebarbative},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}