| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| rebarbative |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·bar·ba·tive |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -bär b -t v |
| ADJECTIVE: | Tending to irritate; repellent: “He became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful” (Robert Craft). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French rébarbatif, from Old French, from (se) rebarber, to confront : re-, re- + barbe, beard (from Latin barba; see bhardh- - in Appendix I).
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