Adjective: culinary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more culinary |
| Superlative | most culinary |
Sample Sentences
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Her culinary skills were excellent.
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Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith. [2016 June 16, Nandita Ravi, “Fast and feast responsibly this Ramadan!”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2017:]
Adjectives inflected like culinary
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 culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”). See: French Adjectives '
culinaire', Latin Adjectives '
culīnārius'.