Word.ws English Dictionary

coprophagic

coprophagic adjective: engaging in coprophagia.

Adjective

coprophagic (comparative more coprophagic, superlative most coprophagic)

  1. Engaging in coprophagia.
    • In his painting, Le Jeu Lugubre, he says, ‘the drawers bespattered with excrement were painted with such minute and realistic complacency that the whole little Surrealist group was anguished by the question: Is he coprophagic or not?’1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali

Synonyms of coprophagic

Forms of coprophagic

comparativemore coprophagic
superlativemost coprophagic

Origin of coprophagic

From copro- + -phagic.

Questions about coprophagic

What does coprophagic mean?
Coprophagic means engaging in coprophagia.
What part of speech is coprophagic?
Coprophagic is an adjective.

Words near coprophagic in the dictionary

  1. coprophagan
  2. coprophagans
  3. coprophage
  4. coprophages
  5. coprophagia
  6. coprophagic
  7. coprophagist
  8. coprophagists
  9. coprophagous
  10. coprophagous grin
  11. coprophagous grins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coprophagic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “coprophagic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coprophagic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.