barbativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Possibly a blend of barb, in the sense of "a cutting remark" and rebarbative (“repellent, irritating”).

形容詞

barbative (comparative more barbative, superlative most barbative)

1. Harshly critical or blunt; sarcastic.
   • 2002, Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon and Schuster (2002), →ISBN, pages 580-581:

     Most of the time he lay among the shadows, left the conversation to his elders. Except for those sudden, uncannily prescient, occasionally barbative, remarks. Uttered quietly but firmly.