Adjective: griseous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more griseous |
| Superlative | most griseous |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like griseous
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 Medieval Latin grīseus, from Proto-West Germanic *grīs (“grey”) (for which compare French gris and German greis) and -eus. See: French Adjectives '
gris', German Adjectives '
greis'.