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rispid

/ˈɹɪspɪd/

rispid adjective: rugose, rough (having an uneven surface).

Adjective (1)

rispid (comparative more rispid, superlative most rispid)

  1. (formal, obsolete) Rugose, rough (having an uneven surface).
    • […] seeds in twos, threes, or fives under each scale, with their wing appendage small, and the shell thin and rispid.1866, Johannes Senilis, “Division one. Coniferæ.” (chapter III), in Pinaceæ: being a handbook of the firs and pines, London: Hatchard and Co., page 59

Adjective (2)

rispid (comparative more rispid, superlative most rispid)

  1. (nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) Harsh, rude.
    • The desperate Youth, livid, rispid, addressed the Maiden, clutching the rails of the garden fence.1968, “No Man, No Woman”, in Barbara Shelby, transl., The third bank of the river, and other stories, Alfred A. Knopf, translation of Primeiras Estórias by Guimarães Rosa, page 171
    • Or if every morning you had to contend with the rispid memory of decades of bristles.2000 March 31, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, “Eight”, in Anything But Love, Houston: Arte Público Press, page 37

Examples of rispid in a sentence

  • The philosophy behind the theory is of course the object of lively, sometimes rispid, debate, and some considerations on that can be found in the book by Lawrence Sklar.2013 April 17, Prof. Dr. Robert Luzzi, Prof. Dr. Áurea Rosas Vasconcellos, Prof. Dr. José Galvão de Pisapia Ramos, “Concluding Remarks”, in...
  • I dont know what happens to US Army, they’re all very rispid… anyway, had to leave fast and went north.2023 January 29, u/GustavoPeres923, “Helicopter California Tour”, in Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums (forum), archived from the original...

Forms of rispid

comparativemore rispid
superlativemost rispid

Origin of rispid

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An anglicisation of Spanish and Portuguese ríspido, from re- + híspido. The term sees use by Portuguese and Spanish speakers, as well as in translations of works originally in Portuguese or Spanish. Likely independently derived multiple times.

Questions about rispid

What does rispid mean?
Rispid means rugose, rough (having an uneven surface).
How do you use rispid in a sentence?
The philosophy behind the theory is of course the object of lively, sometimes rispid, debate, and some considerations on that can be found in the book by Lawrence Sklar.
What part of speech is rispid?
Rispid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce rispid?
Rispid is pronounced /ˈɹɪspɪd/.

Words near rispid in the dictionary

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