Adjective: pneumatic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pneumatic |
| Superlative | most pneumatic |
Sample Sentences
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a pneumatic instrument or engine
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pneumatic cells or bones
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Her almost pneumatic bust tightened itself, and she was quite prepared to say uncharitable things, as she saw Felicia enter. [1899, Alan Dale, His Own Image: A Novel, G. W. Dillingham Company, page 59:]
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"Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs. [1932, Aldous Huxley, chapter 6, in Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:]
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This short but pneumatic woman had killed six men and yet for some reason he wasn't afraid. [2015, Mark Sanderson, Robin Hood Yard (Snow Hill 3), HarperCollins UK, page 255:]
Adjectives inflected like pneumatic
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 pneumaticus, from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”), from πνέω (pnéō, “to blow, breath”). See: Latin Adjectives '
pneumaticus'.