anchoral
anchoral adjective: resembling or having the character of an anchor.
Adjective
anchoral (comparative more anchoral, superlative most anchoral)
- Resembling or having the character of an anchor.
- Various points settled, we hove anchor, or rather hauled up the block of granite doing anchoral duty, and, with the usual hubbub and strife, the orders which every man gives and the advice which no man takes, we paddled in half an hour to a shingly and grassy creek defended by a sand-pit and backed...1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, page 341
- Love may be a planet. It may be something ancoral, something firm and steady and muzzled by its own gravity.2016, Dan Cluchey, The Life of the World to Come, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 143
Forms of anchoral
| comparative | more anchoral |
|---|---|
| superlative | most anchoral |
| alternative form | ancoral |
Origin of anchoral
Borrowed from Latin ancorālis, from Latin ancora (“anchor”). Equivalent to anchor + -al.
Questions about anchoral
- What does anchoral mean?
- Anchoral means resembling or having the character of an anchor.
- What part of speech is anchoral?
- Anchoral is an adjective.
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