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irreptitious

irreptitious adjective: surreptitious; spurious.

Adjective

irreptitious (comparative more irreptitious, superlative most irreptitious)

  1. (obsolete) surreptitious; spurious
    • equal generation in each irreptitious approximation1872, Augustus De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes

Forms of irreptitious

comparativemore irreptitious
superlativemost irreptitious

Origin of irreptitious

From Latin irrēpō (“I creep into”); ir- (“in”) + rēpō (“I creep”).

Words formed from irreptitious

Questions about irreptitious

What does irreptitious mean?
Irreptitious means surreptitious; spurious.
What part of speech is irreptitious?
Irreptitious is an adjective.

Words near irreptitious in the dictionary

  1. irreprovableness
  2. irreprovably
  3. irreps
  4. irreption
  5. irreptions
  6. irreptitious
  7. irreptitiously
  8. irrepublican
  9. irrepudiable
  10. irrepugnable
  11. irreputable

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