Adjective: pinguid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pinguid |
| Superlative | most pinguid |
Sample Sentences
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Fr. Christopher Maire, far from pallid, wearing no black beyond his Queue-Tie, neither wiry nor unnaturally fit, in Manner as free of the suave as of the pinguid, seems scarcely any Englishman’s idea of a Jesuit. [1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 215:]
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First he (Molotov) called on Göring at the Air Ministry where he asked Hitler's 'paladin' more embarrassing questions which the Reichmarschall simply doused with his pinguid heartiness. [2003, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, page 345:]
Adjectives inflected like pinguid
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 Latin pinguis (“fat”) + -id. See: Latin Adjectives '
pinguis'.