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sodomitical

sodomitical adjective: synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites.

Adjective

sodomitical (comparative more sodomitical, superlative most sodomitical)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites.
    • Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots. Moreover it identified...2005, Mark Caldwell, New York Night, page 133
    Synonyms:
    gay

Synonyms of sodomitical

Forms of sodomitical

comparativemore sodomitical
superlativemost sodomitical

Origin of sodomitical

From sodomite + -ical.

Questions about sodomitical

What does sodomitical mean?
Sodomitical means synonym of gay: Of or related to sodomites.
What part of speech is sodomitical?
Sodomitical is an adjective.

Words near sodomitical in the dictionary

  1. sodomite
  2. sodomites
  3. sodomitess
  4. sodomitesses
  5. sodomitic
  6. sodomitical
  7. sodomitically
  8. sodomitries
  9. sodomitry
  10. sodomization
  11. sodomizations

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