rebarbative

Adjective Satellite

serving or tending to repel
- "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"

Adj

Irritating, repellent.

Origin / Etymology

From French rébarbatif, rébarbative (“repellent, disagreeable”), from Middle French rebarber (“to oppose”), ultimately from Latin barba (“beard”), literally “to stand beard to beard against”.

Synonyms

repellant, repellent

Scrabble Score: 18

rebarbative: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
rebarbative: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rebarbative: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

rebarbative: valid Words With Friends Word