rebarbative

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv/    美 /ɹɪˈbɑɹbətɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more rebarbative comparative most rebarbative superlative

词源

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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