Adjective: agrestic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more agrestic |
| Superlative | most agrestic |
Sample Sentences
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The author's early days were filled with agrestic surroundings.
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With agrestic charm / It’s humid in the midwest [2019, Vansire, “Metamodernity”, in Metamodernity:]
Adjectives inflected like agrestic
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 agrestis (“rustic, boorish, wild”) (from ager (“a field, a farm”)) + -ic See: Latin Adjectives '
agrestis'.