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Daedalean

Daedalean is the alternative spelling of Daedalian.

Meaning of Daedalian

Adjective

Daedalian (comparative more Daedalian, superlative most Daedalian)

  1. Ingeniously or cunningly designed; artistic, ingenious, intricate, skillful.
    • "The commerce and industry of the country, ... cannot be altogether so secure when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper money as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver"1812, Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations volume 1, book 2, chapter 2, page 484, published in London by Cadell and Davies
  2. Difficult to comprehend due to complexity or intricacy.
  3. Deceitful, duplicitous.

Forms of Daedalean

comparativemore Daedalean
superlativemost Daedalean

Questions about Daedalean

What is Daedalean the alternative spelling of?
Daedalean is the alternative spelling of Daedalian.

Words near Daedalean in the dictionary

  1. Dadzbóg
  2. DAE
  3. daebak
  4. daedal
  5. daedala
  6. Daedalean
  7. daedaleoid
  8. daedaleous
  9. daedalia
  10. Daedalian
  11. Daedalic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Daedalean (page history and authors); Daedalian (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.

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