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abracadabrant

abracadabrant adjective: ludicrous, preposterous.

Adjective

abracadabrant (comparative more abracadabrant, superlative most abracadabrant)

  1. ludicrous, preposterous
    • Such was J. T. Maston. No wonder his colleagues had every confidence in him when he undertook to solve the wildest abracadabrant calculations that occurred to their audacious brains!1890 April 5, “Barbicane & Co.; or, The Purchase of the Pole”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XII, number 586, translation of original by Jules Verne, chapter VI (A Telephonic Conversation), page...
    • It was also Gounod, who, at the performance of Manon, finished his praise of a morceau by this abracadabrant phrase, ‘I find it octogone!’1895 June 9, Philip Hale, “Music in Boston”, in Musical Courier. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Music and the Music Trades., volume XXX, number 25 (whole 797), Boston, Mass., published 12 June 1895 (New...

Examples of abracadabrant in a sentence

  • As for the snobs at Bayreuth, they undergo “an abracadabrant initiation into the mysteries of the parsifalian chimæra”!1899 April 15, “Our Library Table”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the...
  • The more I see of moving pictures the less I am able to understand many abracadabrant things about them.1918, Theatre Magazine, page 254:
  • Le Figaro, not always kind to Maurice [Chevalier] in the past, called him a ‘peripatetic firework and an abracadabrant fantaisiste’.1992, David Bret, “All I Want is Just One Girl”, in Maurice Chevalier: Up On Top of a Rainbow, London: Robson Books, page 71:
  • We’ve assembled an abracadabrant line-up that we hope will inspire us to read between the words to better see the world as it is and as it could be.2004 September 26, “The Ottawa International Writers Festival”, in Ottawa Citizen, section “Welcome to the 8th Annual Ottawa International...

Forms of abracadabrant

comparativemore abracadabrant
superlativemost abracadabrant

Origin of abracadabrant

From French abracadabrant.

Questions about abracadabrant

What does abracadabrant mean?
Abracadabrant means ludicrous, preposterous.
How do you use abracadabrant in a sentence?
As for the snobs at Bayreuth, they undergo “an abracadabrant initiation into the mysteries of the parsifalian chimæra”!
What part of speech is abracadabrant?
Abracadabrant is an adjective.

Words near abracadabrant in the dictionary

  1. abra
  2. abra-cadabra
  3. abracadabra
  4. abracadabrangle
  5. abracadabrangles
  6. abracadabrant
  7. abracadabras
  8. abracadabric
  9. abrachia
  10. abrachias
  11. abrachiocephalia

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