Adjective: abovedeck
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more abovedeck |
| Superlative | most abovedeck |
Sample Sentences
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These heating elements allow the gun mount to continue to operate when the abovedeck temperature is as low as 40° C. [1997, Jim Bomar, Gunner's Mate, page 5-44:]
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The ship's rocking seemed less noticeable below the water's surface, so the first mate recommended that everyone come out of the abovedeck cabins and staterooms to weather the storm in the lower ballrooms. [2016, Nessi Monstrata, Lagoona Blue and the Big Sea Scarecation:]
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She was easily two hundred fifty feet long, with her dark, forbidding abovedeck casement taking up some two-thirds of that length. [2016, Michael Kilian, Ironclad Alibi:]
Adjectives inflected like abovedeck
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From above + deck.