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perdulous

perdulous adjective: lost; thrown away.

Adjective

perdulous (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) lost; thrown away
    • Those patagonian terms of verse
      Which made it run so free and terse,
      We see quotidianly become
      Completely perdulous, or dumb.1818, John Brown (of Great Yarmouth.), Psyche; Or, The Soul: a Poem in Seven Cantos, page 28
    • He may be one of those who have long witnessed, in silent grief, the desolating effects of our contentions; he may have contemplated, with hopeless regret, the perdulous imbecility of our contracted views, and of our puerile politics, —of our repeated evolutions in intricate mazes, —“our flight in...1835, John Matthew, Notes and comments designed to elucidate a sermon, page 24

Origin of perdulous

See perdu (adjective).

Questions about perdulous

What does perdulous mean?
Perdulous means lost; thrown away.
What part of speech is perdulous?
Perdulous is an adjective.

Words near perdulous in the dictionary

  1. perdricides
  2. perdu
  3. perdue
  4. perduellion
  5. perdues
  6. perdulous
  7. perdurability
  8. perdurable
  9. perdurableness
  10. perdurably
  11. perdurance

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