Adjective: proclive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more proclive |
| Superlative | most proclive |
Sample Sentences
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Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
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The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
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In measure to the proclive weight and rush
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Of His inner nature […] [1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Third Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like proclive
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 prōclīvis (“sloping, inclined”). See: Latin Adjectives '
prōclīvis'.