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crescentic

crescentic adjective: growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.

Adjective

crescentic (comparative more crescentic, superlative most crescentic)

  1. Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.
  2. Crescent-shaped.
    • Twin dimples of the crescentic type came down her tanned cheeks on the sides of her mournful mouth.1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 25

Synonyms of crescentic

Forms of crescentic

comparativemore crescentic
superlativemost crescentic

Origin of crescentic

From crescent (“(growing) half moon”) + -ic. More at crescent.

Words formed from crescentic

Questions about crescentic

What does crescentic mean?
Crescentic means growing, increasing, gaining size, etc.
What part of speech is crescentic?
Crescentic is an adjective.

Words near crescentic in the dictionary

  1. crescentchest
  2. crescentchests
  3. crescented
  4. crescentiaceous
  5. crescential
  6. crescentic
  7. crescentiform
  8. crescentin
  9. crescenting
  10. crescentins
  11. crescentlike

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