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calamitoid

calamitoid adjective: resembling a calamite.

Adjective

calamitoid (comparative more calamitoid, superlative most calamitoid)

  1. Resembling a calamite.

Forms of calamitoid

comparativemore calamitoid
superlativemost calamitoid

Origin of calamitoid

From calamite + -oid.

Questions about calamitoid

What does calamitoid mean?
Calamitoid means resembling a calamite.
What part of speech is calamitoid?
Calamitoid is an adjective.

Words near calamitoid in the dictionary

  1. calamites
  2. calamitic
  3. calamities
  4. calamitist
  5. calamitists
  6. calamitoid
  7. calamitous
  8. calamitously
  9. calamitousness
  10. calamity
  11. calamity howler

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