Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin uber ("full, fruitful, fertile, abundant, plentiful, copious, productive") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Spills have tainted the waters, constant burning of oil wells have affected the air, and the soil that once gave birth to rich foods in abundance is now barely uberous.”
“That “sensitive, lucid, uberous organ,” with its “ridges and creases running over his sic surface,”83 isolated from its body, incapable of expression and communication, with its single eye floating in a basin of Ringer’s solution, was shockingly, almost mockingly prophetic of his wife’s current situation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uberous’.
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phrontistery-u
from phrontistery.info
uxorious, uxorial, uvid, uvelloid, uvala, utriform, utriculiform, utricle, utricide, utraquist, utinam, utilitarianism and 175 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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It means what?
Definitions you'd never surmise from their spelling.
vexillologist, biocide, earworm, moon carrots, logorrhea, uberous, unguiculate, uropoietic, reciprocornous, recrudescence, rectrix, succorrhoea and 39 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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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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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Fruitful
Adjectives meaning fruitful
uberous, fructescent, fructiparous, fructual, fructuose, fructuous, fructive, fructed, multiferous
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Neology
neology, du jour, monanthous, corf, schuss, cladophyll, laniferous, astatic, dahabeah, vibrissa, resupinate, almandine and 77 more...
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The Best Words
Fiske's book
witling, wiseling, xanthodont, wittol, vulgarian, Philistine, virago, viraginous, valetudinarian, uxorious, philogyny, uxoricide and 2 more...
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Miscellany, pt. u
usurious, unplumbed, uxorious, umbrageous, uberous, unsated, unction, uropygial, umbella, unicode, unguiculate
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Hodgepodge
hodgepodge, squelchy, coddle, katydid, bubkes, zamboni, succotash, megaphone, subbookkeeper, joshing, emo, truckle and 30 more...
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Plentiful or Rich In
Adjectives meaning plentiful or rich in
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words for satire
satire: "the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize...."
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