Adjective: homoglossic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more homoglossic |
| Superlative | most homoglossic |
Sample Sentences
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The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture. [2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7:]
Adjectives inflected like homoglossic
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 homoglossia + -ic.