Adjective: asper
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more asper |
| Superlative | most asper |
Sample Sentences
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An asper sound. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like asper
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 Middle English aspre, from Old French aspre (modern French âpre), from Latin asper (“rough”). See: French Adjectives '
âpre', Latin Adjectives '
asper'.