absinthian
absinthian adjective: of the nature of wormwood.
Adjective
absinthian (comparative more absinthian, superlative most absinthian)
- Of the nature of wormwood.
- Tempering absinthian bitterness with sweets1652, Thomas Randolph, Poems
- Of or pertaining to absinthe.
- The dim cavernous light depressed him, and the fish gaping and staring sluggishly in the tanks of absinthian green […]1904, William Henry Rideing, How Tyson Came Home: A Story of England and America, page 70
- The unfortunate dog will, dur- during ten minutes, have had an attack of intoxication and absinthian epilepsy ; but at the end of an hour he will have recovered completely.1908, Charles Robert Richet, The Pros and cons of vivisection, page 16
Examples of absinthian in a sentence
- The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.1978, Thomas Merton, My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel, page 227:
- … in the dazed course of an absinthian stupor, …(?), quoted in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1990 and 1995)
Forms of absinthian
| comparative | more absinthian |
|---|---|
| superlative | most absinthian |
| alternative form | absinthean |
Origin of absinthian
From absinth + -ian.
Questions about absinthian
- What does absinthian mean?
- Absinthian means of the nature of wormwood.
- How do you use absinthian in a sentence?
- The skinny shadows of symbolist poets, converts to Catholicism, linger in the absinthian green of the Boulevard trees.
- What part of speech is absinthian?
- Absinthian is an adjective.
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