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halitotic

halitotic adjective: afflicted with halitosis.

Adjective

halitotic (comparative more halitotic, superlative most halitotic)

  1. Afflicted with halitosis.
    • The teratoid of overall visage. The twisted and hunched and humped and halitotic.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 192

Forms of halitotic

comparativemore halitotic
superlativemost halitotic

Origin of halitotic

By surface analysis, halitosis + -otic.

Questions about halitotic

What does halitotic mean?
Halitotic means afflicted with halitosis.
What part of speech is halitotic?
Halitotic is an adjective.

Words near halitotic in the dictionary

  1. halites
  2. halitic
  3. halitophobia
  4. halitoses
  5. halitosis
  6. halitotic
  7. halitous
  8. halitoxin
  9. halituous
  10. halitus
  11. halituses

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