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anathemic

anathemic adjective: anathematic.

Adjective

anathemic (comparative more anathemic, superlative most anathemic)

  1. anathematic
    • In such places, the indigenous people sometimes need to thank, however anathemic this might be, some of the earliest Europeans to visit them, who recorded at great length oral traditions of all kinds, particularly belief systems, traditional knowledge, kinship systems and genealogies, and myths.2009, Patrick D. Nunn, Vanished Islands And Hidden Continents Of The Pacific
    • The idea that social psychological science should be grounded in agent accounts will be treated by many practitioners as anathemic to the notion of scientific analysis.2012, John D. Greenwood, Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science: Realism and the Social Constitution of Action

Forms of anathemic

comparativemore anathemic
superlativemost anathemic

Origin of anathemic

From anathema + -ic.

Questions about anathemic

What does anathemic mean?
Anathemic means anathematic.
What part of speech is anathemic?
Anathemic is an adjective.

Words near anathemic in the dictionary

  1. anathematized
  2. anathematizer
  3. anathematizers
  4. anathematizes
  5. anathematizing
  6. anathemic
  7. anathemisation
  8. anathemisations
  9. anathemise
  10. anathemised
  11. anathemises

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