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exigeante

exigeante noun: a demanding woman.

Noun

exigeante (plural exigeantes)

  1. (dated) A demanding woman.
    • Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]1871, My Heroine: A Story, page 2

Adjective

exigeante (comparative more exigeante, superlative most exigeante)

  1. (dated) Of a woman: demanding.
    • One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]1841, Society in India; by an Indian officer, page 111

Forms of exigeante

Noun
pluralexigeantes
Adjective
comparativemore exigeante
superlativemost exigeante

Origin of exigeante

From French exigeante, feminine form.

Questions about exigeante

What does exigeante mean?
Exigeante means a demanding woman.
What part of speech is exigeante?
Exigeante can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of exigeante?
The plural of exigeante is exigeantes.

Words near exigeante in the dictionary

  1. exies
  2. EXIF
  3. exifone
  4. EXIFs
  5. exigeant
  6. exigeante
  7. exigeantes
  8. exigence
  9. exigences
  10. exigencies
  11. exigency

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