Adjective: emaciate
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more emaciate |
| Superlative | most emaciate |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like emaciate
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 Latin ēmaciātus, perfect passive participle of ēmaciō (“to make lean, to cause to waste away”), from ex- (“out”) + maciēs (“leanness”), from macer (“thin”).
Verbs referencing "emaciate"
English Adjectives
macilent.