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horrisonant

horrisonant adjective: having an unpleasant sound.

Adjective

horrisonant (comparative more horrisonant, superlative most horrisonant)

  1. Having an unpleasant sound.
    • And if it had been necessary to exact implicit and profound belief, by mysterious and horrisonant terms, he could have amazed the listener […]1834, Robert Southey, The Doctor
    • […] one or two responded to the culprit's screams with horrisonant laughter […]1976, Ray Coryton Hutchinson, Rising

Forms of horrisonant

comparativemore horrisonant
superlativemost horrisonant

Origin of horrisonant

Borrowed from Latin horrisonus.

Questions about horrisonant

What does horrisonant mean?
Horrisonant means having an unpleasant sound.
What part of speech is horrisonant?
Horrisonant is an adjective.

Words near horrisonant in the dictionary

  1. horripilates
  2. horripilating
  3. horripilation
  4. horripilations
  5. horripilatory
  6. horrisonant
  7. horrisonous
  8. Horrocks
  9. Horrocks box
  10. Horrocks boxes
  11. Horrockses

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