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dicacious

Syllables: di·ca·cious/daɪˈkeɪʃəs/

dicacious adjective: talkative; pert; saucy.

Adjective

dicacious (comparative more dicacious, superlative most dicacious)

  1. (rare) Talkative; pert; saucy.
    • So obstinate was this dicacious and pleonastic old man, in his struggles to monopolise the whole conversation in the salle-à-manger, that upon a gentle, respectable, and seedy English clergyman, with the usual amount of wife and children, gliding in, and beginning quietly to converse with his...1792: [ANONYMOUS EDITOR AC02751662], Sporting Magazine, serial 3, volume 32 (July–December, 1858), page 360 (Rogerson & Tuxford)
    • Believers, then, as we are, in phrenology, we cannot say that we believe in it as a trade. It is a science ( so to speak ) in embryo. It may be likened to a noble edifice, the foundations of which are laid broad and deep, upon the principles of unchangeable, eternal truth, and the superstructure of...1840, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, pp237–238

Forms of dicacious

comparativemore dicacious
superlativemost dicacious

Origin of dicacious

From Latin dicāx, from dīcō (“to say”) + -acious.

Words that rhyme with dicacious

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Questions about dicacious

What does dicacious mean?
Dicacious means talkative; pert; saucy.
What part of speech is dicacious?
Dicacious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dicacious?
Dicacious is pronounced /daɪˈkeɪʃəs/.

Words near dicacious in the dictionary

  1. Dibër
  2. DIC
  3. dic'snaries
  4. dic'snary
  5. DICaaS
  6. dicacious
  7. dicacities
  8. dicacity
  9. dicacodyl
  10. dicadmium
  11. dicaeid

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