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plunderous

plunderous adjective: tending to plunder.

Adjective

plunderous (comparative more plunderous, superlative most plunderous)

  1. Tending to plunder.
    • Piracy is an utterly plunderous business.
    Synonyms:
    rapacious

Synonyms of plunderous

Forms of plunderous

comparativemore plunderous
superlativemost plunderous

Origin of plunderous

From plunder + -ous.

Questions about plunderous

What does plunderous mean?
Plunderous means tending to plunder.
What part of speech is plunderous?
Plunderous is an adjective.

Words near plunderous in the dictionary

  1. plunderfishes
  2. plundering
  3. plunderingly
  4. plunderings
  5. plunderless
  6. plunderous
  7. plunderphonic
  8. plunderphonics
  9. plunders
  10. plundersome
  11. Plungar

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