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hiatused

hiatused adjective: lacking brains or intelligence; empty-headed; vacuous.

Adjective

hiatused (not comparable)

  1. Lacking brains or intelligence; empty-headed; vacuous.
    • Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers...1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135
    • With a charitable consideration for Mr. Miller's "hiatused" intellect, and for his stupendous ignorance, I hinted, some time ago, that he deserved contempt.1897 May, The Catholic Journal, New York, page 169

Origin of hiatused

Pseudo-participial formed from hiatus + -ed.

Questions about hiatused

What does hiatused mean?
Hiatused means lacking brains or intelligence; empty-headed; vacuous.
What part of speech is hiatused?
Hiatused is an adjective.

Words near hiatused in the dictionary

  1. Hiatts
  2. hiatus
  3. hiatus hernia
  4. hiatus hernias
  5. hiatus magnus
  6. hiatused
  7. hiatuses
  8. hiawa
  9. Hiawassee
  10. Hiawatha
  11. Hiawathan

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