Adjective: hybrid
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hybrid |
| Superlative | most hybrid |
Sample Sentences
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a hybrid mix of jazz and punk
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Now, it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to bring forward one case of the hybrid offspring of two animals clearly distinct being themselves perfectly fertile. [1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Domestication”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 26:]
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Brooklyn has opted for hybrid SUVs, at least, to show environmental consciousness. [2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 270:]
Adjectives inflected like hybrid
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 hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.
Verbs referencing "hybrid"
Dutch Adjectives
hybride.