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roboreous

roboreous adjective: synonym of oaken, made of oak wood.

Adjective

roboreous (comparative more roboreous, superlative most roboreous)

  1. (rare) Synonym of oaken, made of oak wood.
    Synonyms:
    oaken, made of oak wood
  2. (rare) Synonym of sturdy, resembling the strength, firmness, &c. of oak.
    • A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous...1854 June, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 20, page 327
    • Isogogically we would announce our roboreous proclivities for linguistic exungulation.1901, The Journal of Commercial Education - Volume 18, page 15
    Synonyms:
    sturdy, resembling the strength, firmness, &c. of oak

Synonyms of roboreous

Forms of roboreous

comparativemore roboreous
superlativemost roboreous

Origin of roboreous

From Latin roboreus (“oak, oaken, sturdy”), from robur (“reddish oak; strength, hardness”) + -eus (“-eous: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to roborate + -eous.

Questions about roboreous

What does roboreous mean?
Roboreous means synonym of oaken, made of oak wood.
What part of speech is roboreous?
Roboreous is an adjective.

Words near roboreous in the dictionary

  1. roborating
  2. roboration
  3. roborative
  4. roboratives
  5. roborean
  6. roboreous
  7. roboroach
  8. roboroaches
  9. Roborough
  10. robos
  11. robosexual

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