Definition of rebarbative in English:

rebarbative

adjective rɪˈbɑːbətɪvrəˈbɑrbədɪv

formal

Unattractive and objectionable.
〈正式〉不吸引人的，难看的；令人讨厌的，恼人的
rebarbative modern buildings
丑陋的现代建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge.
- It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this.
- Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour.
- Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage.
- If this is correct, the US response should be to drive a wedge between the perpetrators and to their close supporters, rebarbative as they definitely will turn out to be.
- Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists.
- As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering.
- We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored.
- They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used.
- Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
- Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense.
- In the 11 years since Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu and his rebarbative wife Elena were toppled, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe have developed their own distinctive choreography.
- It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon.
- Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol.
- It is not a chronicle of an aristocratic caste, but of the potpourri of birth, nurture, ambition and opportunism that has imposed upon Britain the most rebarbative governing élite outside France.
- It's just another bit of dreary left-wing ‘statement art’: morally rebarbative, aesthetically nugatory, interesting only as a symptom of cultural decay.
- Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented.
- If all this is a little rebarbative for your battered soul, and tender stomach, you could try some of the globe's more spiritual and/or magical remedies.
- Matthew Turner dug up some of his more rebarbative columns.
- The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well.
Synonyms
revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing

Origin

Late 19th century: from French rébarbatif, -ive, from Old French se rebarber 'face each other ‘beard to beard’ aggressively', from barbe 'beard'.

Definition of rebarbative in US English:

rebarbative

adjectiverəˈbɑrbədɪvrəˈbärbədiv

formal

Unattractive and objectionable.
〈正式〉不吸引人的，难看的；令人讨厌的，恼人的
rebarbative modern buildings
丑陋的现代建筑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented.
- As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering.
- It is not a chronicle of an aristocratic caste, but of the potpourri of birth, nurture, ambition and opportunism that has imposed upon Britain the most rebarbative governing élite outside France.
- It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this.
- Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour.
- Matthew Turner dug up some of his more rebarbative columns.
- They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used.
- The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well.
- It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon.
- In the 11 years since Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu and his rebarbative wife Elena were toppled, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe have developed their own distinctive choreography.
- If all this is a little rebarbative for your battered soul, and tender stomach, you could try some of the globe's more spiritual and/or magical remedies.
- Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
- We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored.
- Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense.
- Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage.
- If this is correct, the US response should be to drive a wedge between the perpetrators and to their close supporters, rebarbative as they definitely will turn out to be.
- It's just another bit of dreary left-wing ‘statement art’: morally rebarbative, aesthetically nugatory, interesting only as a symptom of cultural decay.
- Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol.
- Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists.
- The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge.
Synonyms
revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing

Origin

Late 19th century: from French rébarbatif, -ive, from Old French se rebarber ‘face each other ‘beard to beard’ aggressively’, from barbe ‘beard’.

词汇	rebarbative
释义	Definition of rebarbative in English: rebarbative adjective rɪˈbɑːbətɪvrəˈbɑrbədɪv formal Unattractive and objectionable. 〈正式〉不吸引人的，难看的；令人讨厌的，恼人的 rebarbative modern buildings 丑陋的现代建筑。 Example sentencesExamples The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge. It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this. Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour. Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. If this is correct, the US response should be to drive a wedge between the perpetrators and to their close supporters, rebarbative as they definitely will turn out to be. Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists. As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering. We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored. They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used. Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy? Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. In the 11 years since Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu and his rebarbative wife Elena were toppled, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe have developed their own distinctive choreography. It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon. Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol. It is not a chronicle of an aristocratic caste, but of the potpourri of birth, nurture, ambition and opportunism that has imposed upon Britain the most rebarbative governing élite outside France. It's just another bit of dreary left-wing ‘statement art’: morally rebarbative, aesthetically nugatory, interesting only as a symptom of cultural decay. Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented. If all this is a little rebarbative for your battered soul, and tender stomach, you could try some of the globe's more spiritual and/or magical remedies. Matthew Turner dug up some of his more rebarbative columns. The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well. Synonyms revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing Origin Late 19th century: from French rébarbatif, -ive, from Old French se rebarber 'face each other ‘beard to beard’ aggressively', from barbe 'beard'. Definition of rebarbative in US English: rebarbative adjectiverəˈbɑrbədɪvrəˈbärbədiv formal Unattractive and objectionable. 〈正式〉不吸引人的，难看的；令人讨厌的，恼人的 rebarbative modern buildings 丑陋的现代建筑。 Example sentencesExamples Some of the author's strategies for outwitting this rebarbative terrain are well practised and well documented. As Thomas's pained gait and brittle limbs signal a physical deterioration, put-on sibling chitchat quickly turns to rebarbative bickering. It is not a chronicle of an aristocratic caste, but of the potpourri of birth, nurture, ambition and opportunism that has imposed upon Britain the most rebarbative governing élite outside France. It is too perversely rebarbative an opera to be, as I say, exactly enjoyable, but you begin to wonder if life, with its sado-masochistic tensions below the surface, isn't sometimes like this. Wanting the approval and affection of her teacher, she is baffled by his alternately affectionate and rebarbative behaviour. Matthew Turner dug up some of his more rebarbative columns. They were highly rebarbative in the way that they were carried out and the threats that were used. The person who brings this out in most women is that television presenter who had the mean little whiney, rebarbative jibes that suited her well. It is quite as rebarbative and as jealous of its prerogatives as Parliament and nothing like so easy to summon. In the 11 years since Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu and his rebarbative wife Elena were toppled, the popular uprisings in Eastern Europe have developed their own distinctive choreography. If all this is a little rebarbative for your battered soul, and tender stomach, you could try some of the globe's more spiritual and/or magical remedies. Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy? We'd done the critical reading and so could sort through the often rebarbative yet always challenging works we favored. Our readings proved to be chock-a-block with militant palaver and rebarbative nonsense. Yet the text is neither dense nor rebarbative, and the author provides summaries of the argument as she proceeds from stage to stage. If this is correct, the US response should be to drive a wedge between the perpetrators and to their close supporters, rebarbative as they definitely will turn out to be. It's just another bit of dreary left-wing ‘statement art’: morally rebarbative, aesthetically nugatory, interesting only as a symptom of cultural decay. Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol. Quantification of aims and accomplishments may seem less rebarbative to scientists than to humanists. The more rebarbative influence of O'Casey is tempered by the gentler one of Synge. Synonyms revolting, disgusting, abhorrent, repellent, repugnant, offensive, objectionable, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, reprehensible, deplorable, insufferable, intolerable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, unspeakable, noxious, horrendous, heinous, atrocious, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, obnoxious, unsavoury, unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful, dislikeable, off-putting, uninviting, displeasing Origin Late 19th century: from French rébarbatif, -ive, from Old French se rebarber ‘face each other ‘beard to beard’ aggressively’, from barbe ‘beard’.
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