Adjective: veterinary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more veterinary |
| Superlative | most veterinary |
Sample Sentences
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Max used all his veterinary knowledge to save the goose stuck in the fence.
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The talented artist quickly became fluent in English, found work at a pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant. [2025 September 10, Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, “Suspect in Charlotte train stabbing that killed a Ukrainian refugee is charged with a federal crime. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:]
Adjectives inflected like veterinary
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 veterīnārius, from veterīnus and veterīnae (“cattle;"beasts of burden/of draught"”); compare with veterinarian. See: Latin Adjectives '
veterīnārius'.