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rancourous

rancourous is the obsolete form of rancorous.

Meaning of rancorous

Adjective

rancorous (comparative more rancorous, superlative most rancorous)

  1. Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.
    • rancorous speech

Forms of rancourous

comparativemore rancourous
superlativemost rancourous

Words formed from rancourous

Questions about rancourous

What is rancourous the obsolete form of?
Rancourous is the obsolete form of rancorous.

Words near rancourous in the dictionary

  1. rancour
  2. rancoured
  3. rancouring
  4. rancourless
  5. rancourlessness
  6. rancourous
  7. rancourously
  8. rancourousness
  9. rancours
  10. Rancourt
  11. Rancourts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rancourous (page history and authors); rancorous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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