Adjective: relictual
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more relictual |
| Superlative | most relictual |
Sample Sentences
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Climatic warming during the past 10,000 years led to the extirpation of most low-elevation pika populations, producing the modern-day relictual distribution of the species. [2003 December, Erik A. Beever, “Persistence of pikas in two low-elevation national monuments in the western United States”, in Sierra Nature Notes, volume 3, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2005:]
Adjectives inflected like relictual
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 relict + -ual.