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callipygious

callipygious is the alternative form of callipygous.

Meaning of callipygous

Adjective

callipygous (comparative more callipygous, superlative most callipygous)

  1. Synonym of callipygian.
    • One does not fall very desperately in love with a loud speaker, however pretty, however firmly plump (for Philip's tastes were rather old-fashioned), however attractively callipygous.1928, Aldous Huxley, chapter VII, in Point Counter Point, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 122
    Synonyms:
    callipygian

Forms of callipygious

comparativemore callipygious
superlativemost callipygious

Questions about callipygious

What is callipygious the alternative form of?
Callipygious is the alternative form of callipygous.

Words near callipygious in the dictionary

  1. callipterids
  2. callipurbeckiid
  3. callipurbeckiids
  4. callipygean
  5. callipygian
  6. callipygious
  7. callipygous
  8. callirhipid
  9. callirhipids
  10. Callirrhoe
  11. Callirrhoë

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