solid – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of solid

Adjective: solid

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativesolider
Superlativesolidest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore solid
Superlativemost solid

Sample Sentences

  • Almost all metals are solid at room temperature.
  • Almost a quarter of a million copies is really a solid number for today's record industry. In fact, that number is more than the last two number one albums [2015 July 8, “Rapper Meek Mill Charts His First Number One Album”, in Forbes:]
  • Americans increased their borrowing by a solid amount in September. But the gain was less than half the big August surge [2018 November 7, “Consumer borrowing up solid $10.9 billion in September”, in Journal Record:]
  • On top of that, the speaker is big, so you may have to set aside a solid amount of space for it. [2018 November 7, Christian de Looper, “The best Google Assistant smart speakers you can buy”, in Business Insider:]
  • solid gold
  • solid chocolate
  • The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked. [1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:]
  • a solid foundation
  • As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline. [2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:]
  • He was covered in a fine mist by then, the night skies growing more saturated by the hour. It would be a nice, solid rain before long, he figured. [2011 April 1, J.N. Duncan, Deadworld, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN:]
  • The ground above looked like it might give out again in a solid rain. The opposite bank promised even less. The river bent around acres of mud pocked with knots of grass and cattail spikes. I was tired. Despite the dangers of camping on such unstable ground, I dragged the canoe up the bank[…] [2015 May 1, Patrick Dobson, Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 128:]
  • That's a solid plan.
  • Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid.
  • I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.
  • Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!” [1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 69:]
  • a solid meal
  • the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer [1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:]
  • Theſe are they, who wanting Wit, affect Gravity, and go by the name of Solid men: and a ſolid man is, in plain English, a ſolid, ſolemn Fool. [1675, John Dryden, “To the Right Honourable, John, Earl of Mulgrave, […]”, in Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC:]
  • 1875-1886, J. A. Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The revival of learning
  • The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.
  • a solid constitution of body
  • American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.
  • The delegation is solid for a candidate.
  • John painted the walls solid white.
  • He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.
  • […] the other acquired unlimited power over a solid kingdom. It would be tedious, and not very instructive, to follow the details of German public law during the middle ages : nor are the more important parts of it easily separable […] [1853, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, page 203:]
  • […] a solid New England vote. Even with all New England for him, Mr. Olney could scarcely carry the convention, because he is still hated by the populist and the labor and socialist elements of his party.[…] [1904, Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page, The World's Work, page 4389:]
  • […] we thus succeeded in making ourselves "solid with the administration" before we had been in a town or village forty-eight hours. The next steps in our plan of campaign were, first, to forestall suspicion in the minds of the[…] [1891, George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System, page 306:]
  • I wanted to get solid with him for a time while he lived, but I believe he might have been worked into Paradise with half the scheming that was necessary before he deigned to look favorably upon me. [1895, Outing, page 64:]
  • [Image of a man labelled 'League of Nations' pointing to a picture of a woman labelled 'Democracy Wilson'.] "If I can only get solid with her I stand a chance in this peace game." - The Passing Show (London). [1919, Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World, page 19:]
  • The solid lines show roads, and the dotted lines footpaths.
  • Loose and undisciplined the soldier lay, / Or lost in drink and game the solid day; / Porches and schools , design'd for public good, / Uncover'd, and with scaffolds cumber'd stood, / Or nodded, threatening ruin- […] [1822 [1718?], Matthew Prior, The Poems of Matthew Prior ..., page 253:]
  • A solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
  • "What have plane figures to do with solid orbits? Solid bodies ought to be used for solid orbits." [1841, David Brewster, The Martyrs of Science: Or, The Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler, page 209:]
  • […] the rules […] for measuring different superficial or solid figures will be found under the several heads: the two fundamental[…] [1861, Charles Knight, The English Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of arts and sciences, page 669:]

Adjectives inflected like solid

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s
4. Proto-Italic *soliðos
5. Latin solidusder.
6. Old French solidebor.
7. Middle English solide
8. English solid
9. From Middle English solide, borrowed from Old French solide, from Latin solidus (“solid”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”). Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solidus, sou, and xu. See: Latin Adjectives 'solidus'.

Verbs referencing "solid"

Finnish Adjectives solidi, Finnish Adjectives saletti.