Adjective: genuine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more genuine |
| Superlative | most genuine |
Sample Sentences
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a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
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[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry. [1906, Violet Tweedale, Lady Sarah's Son, page 141:]
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Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments. [1981 May 31, Robert Palmer, “Two Icons of Rock Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023:]
Adjectives inflected like genuine
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 genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. See: Latin Adjectives '
genuīnus'.