octopodial
octopodial adjective: synonym of octopodal, octopuslike.
Adjective
octopodial (not comparable)
- Synonym of octopodal, octopuslike.
- I drove into Lisbon wrestling with my octopodial conscience. Should I really be taking a possible witness out to lunch when I didn't know her level of importance to the case? It was an ugly argument. That word possible became very important, ...2000, Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN
- But worse still, Alhaji Arzika equally was adjudged to be frustrating the speedy privatisation of the octopodial state-owned NITEL.2001, The News, volume 16, published by the Independent Communications Network Limited of Nigeria
- Synonyms:
- octopodal, octopuslike
Examples of octopodial in a sentence
- A few feet from the back of the car Felix and Gio were on their feet locked together in an impossible octopodial embrace.2004, Robert Wilson, A Darkening Stain, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
- This media reception gave it the octopodial status so described and many Nigerians nose-dived into the market, colliding one another, as they struggle to buy "the handset," as it is popularly called.2005, Journal of Media Studies:
Synonyms of octopodial
Questions about octopodial
- What does octopodial mean?
- Octopodial means synonym of octopodal, octopuslike.
- How do you use octopodial in a sentence?
- A few feet from the back of the car Felix and Gio were on their feet locked together in an impossible octopodial embrace.
- What part of speech is octopodial?
- Octopodial is an adjective.
Words near octopodial in the dictionary
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