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minussed

minussed adjective: nonplussed. Also the simple past and past participle of minus.

Adjective

minussed (comparative more minussed, superlative most minussed)

  1. (humorous) Nonplussed.
    • new synonym. / Overheard on the bus: “Weren’t you nonplussed by the market collapse?” / “I guess so. I was certainly minussed.”1930 June 20, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXXXIX, number 147, Chicago, Ill., page 12, column 2
    • The public is not only nonplussed by rising prices but also minussed.1951 August 8, “Bypaths”, in Pathfinder, volume 58, number 16, Chicago, Ill.: Farm Journal, Inc., page 51

Also used as

minussed is also the simple past and past participle of minus.

Examples of minussed in a sentence

  • “I am minussed”, said Alice as she stepped through the looking glass over the threshold of the 20th century. / “You mean to say you are nonplussed,” corrected the non-April hare.1972 December 24, Curtis L. Brown, “Prose on Parade: ‘I am minussed!’”, in View (Sunday Post-Crescent), Appleton, Wis.: Post-Corporation...
  • Yet, though nonplussed, it was not entirely minussed.1977, Keith Spence, “Television”, in Arthur Jacobs, editor, British Music Yearbook: A Survey and Directory with Statistics and Reference...
  • He didn’t look so much nonplussed, as distinctly minussed by the enthusiasm of my acquiescence.1990, Neville Steed, Black Mail, Leicester, Leics.: Ulverscroft, published 1992, →ISBN, pages 175–176:
  • Well, to be honest, she was somewhat minussed.1990, Anna Livia, “Lust and the Other Half”, in Incidents Involving Mirth, Portland, Ore.: Eighth Mountain Press, →ISBN, page 26:

Forms of minussed

comparativemore minussed
superlativemost minussed

Origin of minussed

From minus + -ed. The adjective is by analogy with plussed.

Questions about minussed

What does minussed mean?
Minussed means nonplussed.
How do you use minussed in a sentence?
“I am minussed”, said Alice as she stepped through the looking glass over the threshold of the 20th century. / “You mean to say you are nonplussed,” corrected the non-April hare.
What part of speech is minussed?
Minussed is an adjective.

Words near minussed in the dictionary

  1. minusculy
  2. minused
  3. minuses
  4. minusing
  5. Minusinsk
  6. minussed
  7. minusses
  8. minussing
  9. minutage
  10. minutary
  11. minute

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