Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of wormwood.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of the nature of wormwood.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Of the nature of wormwood.
Etymologies
- absinth + -ian (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Or is she hopelessly locked in this self-imposed literary menopause and just too damn absinthian to feel anything anymore?”
Throw Michiko Into the Waste Land : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
“It's not your chain-smoking, absinthian grandmother -- it's a Koopa Troopa begging for defeat if you think Super Mario Bros. is stupid, just run with me on the metaphor -- and accept that you're wrong.”
“Atlantis in clouded absinthian waters, they lie, awaiting splendor’s blade to lay them bare.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘absinthian’.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Australian
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Color adjectives
A complement to Chromonyms and Chromonyms 2, which are restricted to nouns that have appeared in at least one dictionary. If a word can be either a noun or an adjective, I list it as a noun. This l...
hyacinthine, griseous, glaucous, verdant, virescent, amaranthine, miniaceous, rubiginous, ferruginous, ruddy, caesious, cyanotic and 214 more...
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