eulogistic
eulogistic adjective: conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.
Adjective
eulogistic (comparative more eulogistic, superlative most eulogistic)
- Conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.
- But on one fatal occasion I happened to change my tactics and warmly praised a work[…] my eulogistic review of the hated individual, unfortunately for me, appeared, with the result that private spite outweighed public justice and I was immediately dismissed.1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...
- He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
Forms of eulogistic
| comparative | more eulogistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most eulogistic |
Origin of eulogistic
From eulogy + -istic.
Words formed from eulogistic
Questions about eulogistic
- What does eulogistic mean?
- Eulogistic means conveying praise or admiration, as in a eulogy.
- What part of speech is eulogistic?
- Eulogistic is an adjective.
Words near eulogistic in the dictionary
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