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Definition of Rebarbative
1. Adjective. Serving or tending to repel. "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
Similar to: Unpleasant
Derivative terms: Repel, Repel, Repellant, Repellent, Repellent, Repellent
Definition of Rebarbative
1. Adjective. (context: of a person) irritating, repellent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rebarbative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebarbative
Literary usage of Rebarbative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"The question bristles for me, with the rebarbative; but my prejudices and dearest
traditions are all on the side of the system that has "made England ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1905)
"... the young lady to a hospital, where the surgeon was rebarbative and did not
conceal his injurious suspicions. I never knew that if yells of ' Murder ! ..."
3. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"... argumentativeness rebarbative.7 Behring entered into friendly relations with
a number of members of the medical faculty, including the internists ..."
4. Abbotsholme by Cecil Reddie (1900)
"... pas encore ete demontre qu'un college doive necessairement avoir une apparence
rebarbative. Cette impression persiste, quand on penetre a l'interieur. ..."
5. Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1906)
"... compels them to offer some Honour School, and they hope to find this one rather
less rebarbative than Law or Mathematics, Theology or Physical Science. ..."
6. The Praxis of Alain Badiou by Paul Ashton, A J Bartlett, Justin Clemens (2006)
"... English possessive, retaining the irreducible ambiguity of the genitive.
Second, Worlds' Logics is such a rebarbative syn- ..."
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