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cupidinous

cupidinous adjective: characterized by or related to cupidity (greed, desire for wealth).

Adjective

cupidinous (comparative more cupidinous, superlative most cupidinous)

  1. Characterized by or related to cupidity (greed, desire for wealth).

Forms of cupidinous

comparativemore cupidinous
superlativemost cupidinous

Origin of cupidinous

From Latin *cupīdinōsus, from cupīdō, cupīdinis (“desire; greed”).

Words formed from cupidinous

Questions about cupidinous

What does cupidinous mean?
Cupidinous means characterized by or related to cupidity (greed, desire for wealth).
What part of speech is cupidinous?
Cupidinous is an adjective.

Words near cupidinous in the dictionary

  1. Cupid's Disease
  2. Cupid-like
  3. Cupidian
  4. cupidical
  5. Cupidinian
  6. cupidinous
  7. cupidinously
  8. cupidities
  9. cupidity
  10. Cupidlike
  11. Cupidonian

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