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misozoic

misozoic adjective: life-hating.

Adjective

misozoic (comparative more misozoic, superlative most misozoic)

  1. (rare) life-hating
    • The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation
    • The Duke urges him to prepare for death and to desire it because of life's worthlessness. His image of life is hyperbolically misozoic because he is practicing — and getting off on — homiletics: […]1997, Harry Berger, Peter Erickson, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

Forms of misozoic

comparativemore misozoic
superlativemost misozoic

Origin of misozoic

From miso- + zoic.

Questions about misozoic

What does misozoic mean?
Misozoic means life-hating.
What part of speech is misozoic?
Misozoic is an adjective.

Words near misozoic in the dictionary

  1. misown
  2. misowned
  3. misowning
  4. misowns
  5. misoxeny
  6. misozoic
  7. misozuke
  8. mispace
  9. mispaced
  10. mispaces
  11. mispacing

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