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salonical

salonical adjective: intellectually pretentious.

Adjective

salonical (comparative more salonical, superlative most salonical)

  1. (obsolete) Intellectually pretentious.
    • If the book was not clever and amusing, we should not refer to these matters, nor to such epithets as “swanking ” and “salonical.”1898, James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Athenaeum, page 817
    • ...in between these ghastly sonatas and things the Orders and Decorations could stand about like animated waxworks and discuss the Housing of the People Act and your bromidical hunting-stuff in the usual salonical way, but of course anybody who was too alientated could creep off into Arcadia, where...1929, Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy, M.P., page 119

Forms of salonical

comparativemore salonical
superlativemost salonical

Origin of salonical

From salon + -ical, from the use of salon to refer to an intellectual and social gathering.

Questions about salonical

What does salonical mean?
Salonical means intellectually pretentious.
What part of speech is salonical?
Salonical is an adjective.

Words near salonical in the dictionary

  1. salonfähig
  2. Salong
  3. Salonga
  4. Salongas
  5. Salonica
  6. salonical
  7. Salonika
  8. salonist
  9. saloniste
  10. salonistes
  11. salonists

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