adpressed
adpressed is the simple past and past participle of adpress.
adpressed is the alternative form of appressed.
Meaning of appressed
Adjective
appressed (comparative more appressed, superlative most appressed)
- Closely flattened down.
- During the night the upper or smoother surfaces of the leaves are appressed together, this would seem to shew that the office of this surface of the leaf was to expose the fluids of the plant to the light as well as to the air.1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 25
Forms of adpressed
| comparative | more adpressed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most adpressed |
Questions about adpressed
- What is adpressed the simple past and past participle of?
- Adpressed is the simple past and past participle of adpress.
Words near adpressed in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: adpressed (page history and authors); appressed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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