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antitypous

antitypous adjective: resistant to blows; hard.

Adjective

antitypous (comparative more antitypous, superlative most antitypous)

  1. (obsolete) resistant to blows; hard
    • Essentially antitypous ; one magnitude joined to another always standing without it , and making the whole so much bigger1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...

Forms of antitypous

comparativemore antitypous
superlativemost antitypous

Origin of antitypous

From anti- + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “a blow”) + -ous.

Questions about antitypous

What does antitypous mean?
Antitypous means resistant to blows; hard.
What part of speech is antitypous?
Antitypous is an adjective.

Words near antitypous in the dictionary

  1. antityphoidal
  2. antityphus
  3. antitypic
  4. antitypical
  5. antitypically
  6. antitypous
  7. antitypy
  8. antityrosinase
  9. antiulcer
  10. antiulcerative
  11. antiulcerogenic

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