Adjective: bloat
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bloat |
| Superlative | most bloat |
Sample Sentences
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Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed [1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, scene 4: The Queen's Closet:]
Adjectives inflected like bloat
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
Perhaps from Middle English blot, blout (“soft; flexible; pliable”), from Old Norse blautr (“soft”). Akin to Danish blød, Dutch bloot (“nude”) and German bloß (“nude”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
bloot', German Adjectives '
bloß'.