Adjective: adipose
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more adipose |
| Superlative | most adipose |
Sample Sentences
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They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs. [2003, Dr. Andrew Packard, The Packard Weight Health Plan:]
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This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles. [2012, Ruth Petrie, “Not So Lovely in the Garden”, in Notes from the Garden:]
Adjectives inflected like adipose
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 international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.
Verbs referencing "adipose"
Finnish Adjectives
adipoosi.