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Rebarbative

//ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    serving or tending to repel wordnet

Etymology

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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