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rebarbative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rebarbative has 1 sense
- rebarbative(s = adj.all) repellant, repellent - serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rebarbative, adj. literary repellent, unattractive.
Etymology
F r{eacute}barbatif -ive f. barbe beard
THESAURUS
rebarbative
abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky
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