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lacunose

lacunose adjective: full of gaps or lacunae.

Adjective

lacunose (comparative more lacunose, superlative most lacunose)

  1. Full of gaps or lacunae.
    • Thus the translation attempts to render the lacunose text as accurately as possible.1995, Iain Gardner, “Comments on the Translation”, in The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary, E.J. Brill, page xxxvii
    • 17. Dio, 79(78).15–16 is sadly lacunose, but it is clear that Dio describes the reception by the Senate of letters from Macrinus, which Macrinus signed using the titles of office: [...]2012, Clifford Ando, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome), 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH89LF: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 64
  2. Having large, deep depressions; pitted; having the surface covered with small cavities.

Forms of lacunose

comparativemore lacunose
superlativemost lacunose

Origin of lacunose

From lacuna + -ose.

Words formed from lacunose

Questions about lacunose

What does lacunose mean?
Lacunose means full of gaps or lacunae.
What part of speech is lacunose?
Lacunose is an adjective.

Words near lacunose in the dictionary

  1. lacune
  2. lacunes
  3. lacunin
  4. lacuno-rugose
  5. lacunocanalicular
  6. lacunose
  7. lacunosity
  8. lacunous
  9. lacunule
  10. lacunules
  11. lacunulose

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