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scribatious

scribatious is the alternative spelling of scribacious.

Meaning of scribacious

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 scribatious

comparativemore scribatious
superlativemost scribatious

Questions about scribatious

What is scribatious the alternative spelling of?
Scribatious is the alternative spelling of scribacious.

Words near scribatious in the dictionary

  1. scribacious
  2. scribaciousness
  3. scribal
  4. scribality
  5. scribally
  6. scribatious
  7. scribbet
  8. scribbets
  9. scribblage
  10. scribblative
  11. scribble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scribatious (page history and authors); scribacious (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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