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pandemonious

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

Adjective

pandemonious (comparative more pandemonious, superlative most pandemonious)

  1. Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of, a pandemonium.
    • One ponderous cloud of smoke, blacker than midnight, remained unchanging above the pandemonious lake.1895, Sam Flint, “Pandemonium”, in On the Road to the Lake, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, […], page 76
    • Behold how my words have died from all the ages, and nothing can be heard but the grating sounds of your pandemonious conclaves.1898, Metaphysical Magazine: A Monthly Review of the Occult Sciences and Metaphysical Philosophy, page 415

Forms of pandemonious

comparativemore pandemonious
superlativemost pandemonious

Origin of pandemonious

From pandemonium + -ous.

Questions about pandemonious

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

Words near pandemonious in the dictionary

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

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