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Rebarbative
It means unattractive and objectionable.
Rebarbative is a word of no great age: it only began to appear at the end of the nineteenth century. It’s still moderately uncommon, though you will spot it in the more up-market newspapers or in the work of writers with more power to their pens than most of us. A couple of examples:
(via World Wide Words: Rebarbative)
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rebarbative (adj.)
causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent
WORD OF THE DAY (part 2) Rebarbative-adjective 1. causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent. All too many judges feel that the majesty of the law needs to be protected with the barbed wire of rebarbative prose, prickly with forbidding jargon and headache-inducing abstraction. #wordoftheday #rebarbative
Word of the Day: Rebarbative
Rebarbative (ree-bahr-buh-tiv)
Adjective
1. causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent
Rebarbative
adjective
formal
unattractive and objectionable."rebarbative modern buildings"
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re·bar·ba·tive rəˈbärbətiv/ adjectiveformal unattractive and objectionable. "rebarbative modern buildings" Found in: Bringing Up Bébé, by Pamela Druckerman I really love when a word is introduced as interesting vocabulary and defined directly in the text. In this instance, it's the same Google.com dictionary definition I have found.
DFW word of the day
Rebarbative - ADJECTIVE:
Tending to irritate; repellent: "He became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful" (Robert Craft).
ETYMOLOGY: French rébarbatif, from Old French, from (se) rebarber, to confront : re-, re- + barbe, beard (from Latin barba; see bhardh-- in Indo-European roots)
rebarbative
\ree-BAR-buh-tiv\
Serving or tending to irritate or repel.
History & Origin
Rebarbative (1892) comes from French rébarbatif (14th century), "stern, surly, grim, forbidding," from Middle French rebarber, "to be repellent," from re- (from the Latin) + barbe, "beard" (from Latin barba). This apparently refers to two men squaring up face-to-face (beard-to-beard), in close-quartered and hairy aggressiveness.
Usage
"Most of his neighbors found the old man rebarbative, and went out of their way to avoid him."
