Adjective: lentous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lentous |
| Superlative | most lentous |
Sample Sentences
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spawn of a lentous and transparent body [1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like lentous
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 lentus. See lentor. See: Latin Adjectives '
lentus'.