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leopardine

leopardine adjective: resembling or characteristic of a leopard.

Adjective

leopardine (comparative more leopardine, superlative most leopardine)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
    • Near-synonym: leopardlike (sometimes synonymous)
    • My leopardine beauties are rarer1901, Thomas Hardy, 'The Mother Mourns' in Poems of the Past and the Present, Macmillan (1903), page 73
    Synonyms:
    leopardlike

Synonyms of leopardine

Forms of leopardine

comparativemore leopardine
superlativemost leopardine

Origin of leopardine

From leopard + -ine.

Questions about leopardine

What does leopardine mean?
Leopardine means resembling or characteristic of a leopard.
What part of speech is leopardine?
Leopardine is an adjective.

Words near leopardine in the dictionary

  1. leopardes
  2. leopardess
  3. leopardesses
  4. Leopardi
  5. Leopardian
  6. leopardine
  7. leopardish
  8. leopardlike
  9. leopards
  10. Leopards Eating Faces Party
  11. Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

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