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quaquaversal

UK/kweɪkwəˈvɜːsəl/

quaquaversal adjective: going off in all directions from the center.

Adjective

quaquaversal (comparative more quaquaversal, superlative most quaquaversal)

  1. Going off in all directions from the center.
    • She had a long look at him, and after having just spent hours with Frenesi’s face, found it easier now to make out, past the quaquaversal beard and smudged eyeglass lenses, as clearly as she ever would in Zoyd her own not-yet-come-to-terms-with face.1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
    • It is a brilliantly managed scene, quaquaversal in its geometries, simultaneously expanding present space and deepening past time.2015, Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
  2. Dipping towards a center in all directions.

Forms of quaquaversal

comparativemore quaquaversal
superlativemost quaquaversal

Origin of quaquaversal

From Latin quaqua versus (“turned wheresoever”).

Words formed from quaquaversal

Questions about quaquaversal

What does quaquaversal mean?
Quaquaversal means going off in all directions from the center.
What part of speech is quaquaversal?
Quaquaversal is an adjective.
How do you pronounce quaquaversal?
Quaquaversal is pronounced /kweɪkwəˈvɜːsəl/ (UK).

Words near quaquaversal in the dictionary

  1. quapped
  2. quapping
  3. quaps
  4. quaq
  5. Quaqtaq
  6. quaquaversal
  7. quaquaversality
  8. quaquaversally
  9. quar
  10. quarandine
  11. quarandines

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