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scribacious

scribacious adjective: prone to excessive writing.

Adjective

scribacious (comparative more scribacious, superlative most scribacious)

  1. Prone to excessive writing.
    • VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical;[…])a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and...

Forms of scribacious

comparativemore scribacious
superlativemost scribacious
alternative formscribaceous
alternative formscribatious

Origin of scribacious

From Latin scrībo + -acious.

Words that rhyme with scribacious

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Questions about scribacious

What does scribacious mean?
Scribacious means prone to excessive writing.
What part of speech is scribacious?
Scribacious is an adjective.

Words near scribacious in the dictionary

  1. screwworms
  2. screwy
  3. Scriabinian
  4. scribable
  5. scribaceous
  6. scribacious
  7. scribaciousness
  8. scribal
  9. scribality
  10. scribally
  11. scribatious

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