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nigritudinous

nigritudinous adjective: black in color.

Adjective

nigritudinous (comparative more nigritudinous, superlative most nigritudinous)

  1. (formal) Black in color.

Forms of nigritudinous

comparativemore nigritudinous
superlativemost nigritudinous

Origin of nigritudinous

From Latin nigritūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of Latin nigritūdō, from niger + -tūdō. By surface analysis, nigritude + -ous.

Questions about nigritudinous

What does nigritudinous mean?
Nigritudinous means black in color.
What part of speech is nigritudinous?
Nigritudinous is an adjective.

Words near nigritudinous in the dictionary

  1. Nigritian
  2. Nigritians
  3. Nigritic
  4. nigritude
  5. nigritudes
  6. nigritudinous
  7. nigro
  8. nigroe
  9. nigroes
  10. nigromancer
  11. nigromancers

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