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rebarbative

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re⋅bar⋅ba⋅tive

  [ree-bahr-buh-tiv]
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–adjective
causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
Origin:
1890–95; < F, fem. of rébarbatif, deriv. of rébarber to be unattractive, equiv. to ré- re- + barbe beard (< L barba) + -atif -ative
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re·bar·ba·tive   (rē-bär'bə-tĭv)   
adj.  Tending to irritate; repellent: "He became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful" (Robert Craft).

[French rébarbatif, from Old French, from (se) rebarber, to confront : re-, re- + barbe, beard (from Latin barba; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots).]
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