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pandemonic

pandemonic adjective: relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.

Adjective

pandemonic (comparative more pandemonic, superlative most pandemonic)

  1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
    • […]for on no other principle can I account for the prolongation of the day of feasting at the Crown and Anchor, until the 31st day of July, unless it is to allow themselves one little month to boast f respectability, &c. &c. &c., before the Satirist can present to the public a true account of the...1810 August 1, Argus Quizmenog, “Anticipatiana Reformeriana”, in The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, volume VII, London, page 155
    • Sheets, tablecloths, white gowns, and pocket-handkerchiefs were instantly in demand, and every one, as has been seen, entered, con amore, into the extempore entertainment of Pandemonic Revels.1833 January, “Pandemonic Revels”, in The Royal Lady’s Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James’s, number XXV, London, page 15

Forms of pandemonic

comparativemore pandemonic
superlativemost pandemonic

Origin of pandemonic

From pandemonium + -ic, after demonic.

Questions about pandemonic

What does pandemonic mean?
Pandemonic means relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
What part of speech is pandemonic?
Pandemonic is an adjective.

Words near pandemonic in the dictionary

  1. pandemoniac
  2. pandemoniacal
  3. pandemoniacs
  4. pandemonian
  5. pandemonians
  6. pandemonic
  7. pandemonious
  8. pandemonism
  9. pandemonistic
  10. pandemonium
  11. pandemonium architecture

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