Adjective: sadistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sadistic |
| Superlative | most sadistic |
Sample Sentences
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Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead. [2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:]
Adjectives inflected like sadistic
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
1. Etymology tree
2. English sadist
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English sadistic
10. From sadist + -ic.
Verbs referencing "sadistic"
Finnish Adjectives
sadistinen.