rebarbative

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Definition von rebarbative im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Definition von rebarbative im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

irritating, repellent

I know there are few things more rebarbative than parents who insist, usually against all the evidence, that their children are the bees’ knees, but something seems to have turned out fine.

Describing something which is extremely irritating

serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent

{s} repulsive, tending to repel, driving away; repellent, causing disgust or aversion; objectionable, unpleasant; causing nuisance

Silbentrennung

re·bar·ba·tive

Etymologie

() From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent”, “disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”, “to stand up to”) (from Old French re- + barbe (“barb”, “beard”) (from Latin barba (“beard”)) ≅ literally, “to stand beard to beard against”) + -atif (“-ative”).