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hebetant

/ˈhɛbɪtənt/

hebetant adjective: causing lethargy.

Adjective

hebetant (comparative more hebetant, superlative most hebetant)

  1. (obsolete) Causing lethargy.
    • This morning, May 2, 1662, having first broken my fast upon eggs and cooling salades, mellows, watercresses, those herbes, according to Villanovus his prescription, who disallows the use of meat in a morning as gross, fat, hebetant, feral, altogether fitter for wild beasts than man […]a. 1834, Charles Lamb, Curious Fragments extracted from a common-place book, which belonged to Robert Burton […]

hebetant meaning in Bengali

hebetant in Bengali

তন্দ্রা, জড়তা সৃষ্টিকারী

Forms of hebetant

comparativemore hebetant
superlativemost hebetant

Origin of hebetant

From Latin hebetāns, present participle of hebetō (“to dull, deaden”).

Questions about hebetant

What does hebetant mean?
Hebetant means causing lethargy.
What is hebetant in Bengali?
Hebetant in Bengali is তন্দ্রা, জড়তা সৃষ্টিকারী. See Hebetant meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hebetant?
Hebetant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce hebetant?
Hebetant is pronounced /ˈhɛbɪtənt/.

Words near hebetant in the dictionary

  1. Hebersham
  2. Hebert
  3. Heberts
  4. hebes
  5. hebesphenomegacorona
  6. hebetant
  7. hebetate
  8. hebetated
  9. hebetates
  10. hebetating
  11. hebetation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hebetant (page history and authors); hebetant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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