Adjective: two-spirited
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more two-spirited |
| Superlative | most two-spirited |
Sample Sentences
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An organization established this year in San Diego is one of the few in the country made up of Two Spirited people (a Native term for gay men and lesbians), according to one of its founders, Tom Lidot. […] One of the group's goals is "to re-establish the pride and the role that Two Spirited people held" in Native culture, said Lidot, who is a member of the Tlingit nation. [1990 December 22 – 1991 January 4, Dawn Schmitz, “New Two spirited Group Formed”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, Boston, Mass.: GCN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:]
Adjectives inflected like two-spirited
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 two-spirit + -ed.