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inspissated

inspissated adjective: thickened or dried by evaporation. Also the simple past and past participle of inspissate.

Adjective

inspissated (comparative more inspissated, superlative most inspissated)

  1. Thickened or dried by evaporation.
  2. (figuratively) Concentrated or accentuated.
    • Fresh from the furnace glare, I can see nothing in this inspissated gloom. (James Bridie pseudonym Osborne Henry Mavor, A Change for the Worse, 1943)
    • I watched the right hon. Gentleman's face as his predecessor spoke this afternoon and I have never seen such inspissated gloom etched on a human visage in my life. When the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) said that she planned to support him in the next election, he must have been...

Also used as

inspissated is also the simple past and past participle of inspissate.

Forms of inspissated

comparativemore inspissated
superlativemost inspissated

Words formed from inspissated

Questions about inspissated

What does inspissated mean?
Inspissated means thickened or dried by evaporation.
What part of speech is inspissated?
Inspissated is an adjective.

Words near inspissated in the dictionary

  1. inspirometer
  2. inspirometers
  3. inspissant
  4. inspissants
  5. inspissate
  6. inspissated
  7. inspissates
  8. inspissating
  9. inspissation
  10. inspissations
  11. inspissator

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