Meaning

1 senses
  1. Irritating, repellent.

    abstoßend

    отта́лкивающийottálkivajuščij

More definitions
  • serving or tending to repel

Translations

2 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent, disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarb

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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Forms

more rebarbative, most rebarbative
Comparativemore rebarbative Lesson
Superlativemost rebarbative Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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