rebarbative

a. 厌烦的, 令人讨厌的, 难看的

发音

UK /ɹɪˈbɑːbətɪv/
US /ɹɪˈbɑɹbətɪv/

词形变化

more rebarbative 比较级 most rebarbative 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Irritating, repellent.

    2009 August 31, Nicholas Lezard, Down and out in London (column), New Statesman, page 54, I know there are few things more rebarbative than parents who insist, usually against all the evidence, that their children are the bees’ knees, but something seems to have turned out fine.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

repellent repellant

近义相关 1

unpleasant

词源

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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