Adjective: cerise
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cerise |
| Superlative | most cerise |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like cerise
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
Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch. See: French Adjectives '
cerise'.