Adjective: australopithecine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more australopithecine |
| Superlative | most australopithecine |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like australopithecine
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
Originally in reference to a now-obsolete subfamily Australopithecinae, formed in New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”). See: Latin Adjectives '
austrālis'.