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semisatiric

semisatiric adjective: partly satirical.

Adjective

semisatiric (not comparable)

  1. Partly satirical.
    • The crowd appeared to be mostly Spanish, but that may be only for now; with her dark sunglasses and spired peineta (the ornamental comb worn by flamenco singers), she’s created a semisatiric princess-of-darkness persona that isn’t hard for outsiders to understand.2007 May 10, Ben Ratliff, “A Spaniard With a Taste for Drama”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    semisatirical

Synonyms of semisatiric

Origin of semisatiric

From semi- + satiric.

Questions about semisatiric

What does semisatiric mean?
Semisatiric means partly satirical.
What part of speech is semisatiric?
Semisatiric is an adjective.

Words near semisatiric in the dictionary

  1. semisagittate
  2. semisaline
  3. semisaprophyte
  4. semisaprophytes
  5. semisaprophytic
  6. semisatiric
  7. semisatirical
  8. semisatisfied
  9. semisaturated
  10. semisaturation
  11. semisavage

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