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Dedalian

Dedalian is the alternative form 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 Dedalian

comparativemore Dedalian
superlativemost Dedalian

Questions about Dedalian

What is Dedalian the alternative form of?
Dedalian is the alternative form of Daedalian.

Words near Dedalian in the dictionary

  1. ded
  2. Ded Moroz
  3. ded reckoning
  4. ded reckonings
  5. dedal
  6. Dedalian
  7. dedalous
  8. Dedan
  9. Dedanim
  10. Dedanite
  11. Dedanites

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Dedalian (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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