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adunque

adunque is the alternative form of adunc.

Meaning of adunc

Adjective

adunc (comparative more adunc, superlative most adunc)

  1. (usually) Curved inward, hooked.
    • There was altogether something repulsive to sympathy about this old Shylock; and whether or not from any involuntary associations connected with his known profession (which certainly of itself might entitle him to succeed to the distinction of the monks, whom Voltaire called the modern vampyres)...1823, “On Vampyrism”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 5, page 142

Forms of adunque

comparativemore adunque
superlativemost adunque

Questions about adunque

What is adunque the alternative form of?
Adunque is the alternative form of adunc.

Words near adunque in the dictionary

  1. adunc
  2. aduncate
  3. aduncated
  4. aduncity
  5. aduncous
  6. adunque
  7. Adur
  8. adure
  9. adured
  10. aduring
  11. Adurol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adunque (page history and authors); adunc (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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