Adjective: carbuncular
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more carbuncular |
| Superlative | most carbuncular |
Sample Sentences
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Such a mass of carbuncular disease I have rarely seen. [1861, Valentine Mott, Eulogy on the late John W. Francis, M.D., LL.D:]
Adjectives inflected like carbuncular
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
Borrowed from Latin carbunculāris. By surface analysis, carbuncle + -ar. See: Latin Adjectives '
carbunculāris'.