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parricidal

parricidal adjective: related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.

Adjective

parricidal (comparative more parricidal, superlative most parricidal)

  1. Related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.
    • When my parents grounded me, I had a burst of parricidal thoughts, but I eventually got over it.

Forms of parricidal

comparativemore parricidal
superlativemost parricidal
alternative form (obsolete)parricidial

Origin of parricidal

From Latin parricīdālis. By surface analysis, parricide + -al.

Words formed from parricidal

Questions about parricidal

What does parricidal mean?
Parricidal means related to, inclined to, or guilty of, the murder of one's immediate family.
What part of speech is parricidal?
Parricidal is an adjective.

Words near parricidal in the dictionary

  1. parrhesia
  2. parrhesiastic
  3. parrhesic
  4. parriar
  5. parriars
  6. parricidal
  7. parricidally
  8. parricide
  9. parricides
  10. parricidial
  11. parricidiall

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