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dapatical

dapatical adjective: sumptuous in cheer.

Adjective

dapatical (comparative more dapatical, superlative most dapatical)

  1. (obsolete) Sumptuous in cheer.
    • [M]en / and women who enjoy the cloop of corks, appreciate / dapatical fare, yet can see in swallowing / a sign act of reverence, / in speech a work of re-presenting / the true olamic silence.1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Thanksgiving for a Habitat. Tonight at Seven-thirty (for M. F. K. Fisher).”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC, page 31

Forms of dapatical

comparativemore dapatical
superlativemost dapatical

Origin of dapatical

From Latin dapaticus, from daps (“feast, banquet”).

Questions about dapatical

What does dapatical mean?
Dapatical means sumptuous in cheer.
What part of speech is dapatical?
Dapatical is an adjective.

Words near dapatical in the dictionary

  1. Dapa
  2. dapabutan
  3. dapagliflozin
  4. dapanji
  5. Dapaon
  6. dapatical
  7. dapdap
  8. dapdaps
  9. dapediid
  10. dapediids
  11. Daph

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