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rebarbative

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabbeeirrtvStarts with REnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. serving or tending to repel

Word origin

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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  • […]A mystery (1990), for instance, the first book he wrote after arriving in America, stunned critics; for some it was an ambitious and remarkable book, for others it was rebarbative and wilfully obscure.
  • Central to the story was Steve Eisman, an eccentric and rebarbative hedge-funder who was one of the earliest to see through the subprime lies.
  • Houellebecq doesn’t like experts[…]and rebarbative acronyms are the language that experts use to put the rest of us in our place.

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