different between repellent vs rebarbative

English

Etymology

From Latin repellens. Equivalent to repel +? -ent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?l?nt/

Adjective

repellent (comparative more repellent, superlative most repellent)

1. Tending or able to repel; driving back.
2. Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
3. Resistant or impervious to something.

Hyponyms

• water-repellent

Translations

Noun

repellent (plural repellents)

1. Someone who repels.
2. A substance used to repel insects, other pests, or dangerous animals.
3. A substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.

Translations

References

• repellent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

repellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of repell?

English

Etymology

From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent”, “disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”, “to stand up to”) (from Old French re- + barbe (“barb”, “beard”) (from Latin barba (“beard”), literally “to stand beard to beard against”) + -atif (“-ative”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?bär?b?t?v, IPA^(key): /???b??b?t?v/
• (General American) enPR: r?bär?b?t?v, IPA^(key): /???b??b?t?v/

Adjective

rebarbative (comparative more rebarbative, superlative most rebarbative)

1. Irritating, repellent.
   • 1991, Anthony Grafton, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450—1800, 1994 paperback edition, page 42,

     Poliziano took great pleasure in incorporating the new myths, facts, and variant readings he uncovered as a scholar in his own Latin poems and letters — and in pointing out that he had done so in his most rebarbative technical monographs.

   • 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.

   • 2011, David Marquand, The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, page 31,

     They wished to transcend it—an astounding political innovation whose inner meaning has been so swathed in rebarbative academic jargon and even more rebarbative officialese that only a tiny minority of the Union?s citizens understand how it works.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “rebarbative, adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, June 2009)
• “re?barbative, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Anagrams

• abbreviater