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misocapnist

misocapnist noun: one who hates tobacco smoke.

Noun

misocapnist (plural misocapnists)

  1. (rare) One who hates tobacco smoke.
    • He was followed by a disputatious gentleman, who had the temerity to maintain before the royal misocapnist (the Counterblast had not as yet issued from the monarch's lips, but his anti-nicotian prejudices were well known,) the thesis, that "tobacco must needs be good;" proceeding to his proof "by...1864, “Visit of King James to Oxford in 1605: Tobacologia: Date of "Macbeth"”, in Notes and Queries
    • The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with...1972, William Bates, George Cruikshank: the artist, the humorist, and the man, with some account of his brother Robert, →ISBN

Adjective

misocapnist (comparative more misocapnist, superlative most misocapnist)

  1. (nonstandard, possibly) Hating tobacco smoke.
    • As smoking in misocapnist North America is declining, cigarettes are cheap and plentiful in Korea.2003, K. Lee Washington, A Jewel Amid the Yellow Dust - K.O.R.E.A., →ISBN, page 68
    Synonyms:
    misocapnic

misocapnist meaning in Tamil

misocapnist in Tamil

புகை வெருளி

Synonyms of misocapnist

Forms of misocapnist

Noun
pluralmisocapnists
Adjective
comparativemore misocapnist
superlativemost misocapnist

Origin of misocapnist

From miso- + capno- (stem of Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”)) + ist.

Questions about misocapnist

What does misocapnist mean?
Misocapnist means one who hates tobacco smoke.
What is misocapnist in Tamil?
Misocapnist in Tamil is புகை வெருளி. See Misocapnist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is misocapnist?
Misocapnist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of misocapnist?
The plural of misocapnist is misocapnists.

Words near misocapnist in the dictionary

  1. misobserved
  2. misobserves
  3. misobserving
  4. misocainea
  5. misocapnic
  6. misocapnist
  7. misocapnists
  8. MisOcc
  9. misoccupation
  10. misoccupations
  11. misoccupied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misocapnist (page history and authors); misocapnist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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