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fanimorous

fanimorous adjective: beautiful, attractive, captivating.

Adjective

fanimorous (comparative more fanimorous, superlative most fanimorous)

  1. (Nigeria, slang) beautiful, attractive, captivating
    • Your birthday outfits are really fanimorous.
    • And we laughed because he was fanimorous kokonbility.1984, Tayo Olafioye, The Saga of Sego: An African Novel, page 31

Forms of fanimorous

comparativemore fanimorous
superlativemost fanimorous

Origin of fanimorous

From Yoruba fanimọ́ra + -ous.

Questions about fanimorous

What does fanimorous mean?
Fanimorous means beautiful, attractive, captivating.
What part of speech is fanimorous?
Fanimorous is an adjective.

Words near fanimorous in the dictionary

  1. fanilects
  2. Fanilow
  3. Fanilows
  4. Fanilton
  5. Faniltons
  6. fanimorous
  7. fanin
  8. Faning
  9. fanins
  10. fanion
  11. fanions

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